Bob Schieffer asked question after question on Middle East terrorism. Is nothing else important in the world? Does the rest of the world even exist?
Sure, Middle East terrorism is important … but by now we’ve heard the candidates’ talking points on nuclear Iran, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the very same opening question about Benghazi that moderator Martha Raddatz asked in her debate. Certainly by the third question it was time to move on.
--- What’s happening in Honduras since the coup or Haiti since the earthquake? What’s happening anywhere in Latin America or our whole hemisphere?
--- Romney doesn’t want us to become Spain or Greece. What’s happening in Spain and Greece? How goes the Euro or the Eurozone?
--- China is investing a lot of development aid in Africa. What does that signify? Does anyone know that Africa is home to six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies, and that fifteen sub-Saharan countries will hold elections will hold elections this year?
I don’t know the answers to any of these questions. Indeed, I’m so tuned out of foreign policy I hardly know what the best questions are. A presidential debate on foreign policy might have helped. Alas, we didn’t have one.
I fault the moderator.