Foreign Policy

How To Talk To A Liberal: Questions You Can’t Answer

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The other day I got into a debate with a liberal on twitter (shocking I know). This guy had responded to one of my posts regarding Tea Party opposition to military intervention in Syria, saying that such a position was illogical and implying that those who held it were despicable human beings. He then began grilling me with all kinds of foreign policy questions, from events in Reagan’s time to Bush’s War in Iraq.

Now I’m no foreign policy expert; in fact I know precious little about the intricacies of dealing with other nations. So I’m left with a classic debate scenario:  the unanswerable question. How do you respond to a question when you don’t know the answer?

The simple solution is, you don’t. You can’t know everything, so the proper response is to take control of the situation by admitting that fact up front.

Even if the opponent continues to push it this should still be your answer. Doing so takes the issue off the table so that you don’t have to step into the trap set for you to make a statement that you will not only regret but probably disagree with later.

So the next time you find yourself asked a question that you don’t know the answer to, just remember my favorite go to response:  I don’t know.

4 Things I Learned from the Benghazi Hearing

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So these are the 4 things I learned from watching the Benghazi hearing.

1. Ambassador Stevens called former deputy chief of mission in Libya Gregory Hicks saying that the Embassy was “under attack” just before the cell phone call was disrupted.

2. Ambassador Stevens was taken to an enemy hospital.

3. The crime scene was not secured and the FBI was not allowed to go in for 17 days. This was the direct result of UN Ambassador from the US Susan Rice and her statement that the attack was actually a protest over an anti-Muslim YouTube video.  She essentially called the president of Libya a liar for calling the incident a terror attack, embarrassing and infuriating him.

4. Lieutenant Colonel Gibson is the man that knows who gave the order to stand down during the attack.