During the 1988 presidential debates, no one asked either of the candidates about Iraq, yet soon the US was at war in the Persian Gulf to repel Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. During the 2000 presidential debates, no one asked either candidate about the threat from al Qaeda, yet within months al Qaeda had attacked the American homeland and the war on terror dominated George W. Bush’s presidency. So in 2016, what national security issue is no one asking the candidates about today that could come to dominate the next president’s term in office?
In advance of the first 2016 presidential …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
