Wouldn’t that be a great “gotcha” question for political candidates?
Because most candidates wouldn’t know how to answer, or would default to their usual - “You ain’t got F16s, man”, or suggest nuking American citizens, while on the other hand even the mere suggestion of retaliatory strikes on foreign countries who would strike first is “not who we are”.
I think reasonably intelligent people could give good answers, the problem with too many of our politicians frankly is they are not very bright. It isn’t a matter of education - they have the *credentials* but they are too often very dense and cheerleaders for unitary government. They don’t believe in our form of government, they hate it and want to change it, believing they are smarter than the engineers who designed it.
I used to see this in maintenance and repair and troubleshooting of equipment large and small. “Did you do this, like the book says?”
“No, that doesn’t make any sense to me.” Sometimes people don’t realize, simply because they personally don’t understand why something is done a specific way, that doesn’t mean you get to skip it. Sometimes individuals are smarter than the inventors, engineers, and architects of a design.
But that’s probably not the way to bet.
I now believe the reason they wanted it changed was because the way it was originally designed, there was too little opportunity for graft.
I now believe graft is the primary purpose of government. We feed this massive army of do-nothings and parasites because they have rigged the system to give them wealth off of the backs of people who actually do useful things in society.