Jonathan Bernstein is right. The GOP presidential debates have largely been substance-free on foreign policy.
Why are the debate moderators not trying to provoke more clashes like those between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum? Like Paul, Gary Johnson and Jon Huntsman also dissent from the neoconservative line on war and national security (if not to the same extent). Why won't the moderators allow them to debate the others on this topic? These events are supposed to be debates, right?
And even aside from the largely ignored moral and strategic dimensions of American foreign policy, it's absurd that in an election where government spending is supposedly a huge issue, none of the "top tier" Republican candidates are talking about America's trillion dollar empire.
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