The GOP Presidential Candidates pretend to be experts on national security. But the plain truth is that while they are pretty good at spouting popular ideas, they don’t really have much of a grasp on what is really going on. They get their facts wrong, they confuse important issues, and in the case of Chris Christie, plan to form alliances with people that aren’t even alive any more.

Which makes you wonder . . . . if they spend huge amounts of time preparing for a debate where they have a very good idea of the topics ahead of time and have a very limited need to respond in depth, how could they possibly handle national security complexities in the real world?

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