Friday’s theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT)
is titled “Mad World,” and it’s about the mixed-up, shook-up planet
we live on, and what the United States government should (or
shouldn’t) do about it. Almost accidentally, the show has morphed
into a vigorous debate over George W. Bush-era foreign policy with
some of the principals involved.
Former Bush deputy secretary of
defense Paul
Wolfowitz defends the Iraq War, elevates his former boss over
his former boss’s father, and rejects the historical premises of
the co-hosts. Original Department of Homeland Security secretary
Tom Ridge
defends the DHS and the Transportation Security Administration, and
rejects the notion that threat alerts were ever politicized. And
former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tussles with
the co-hosts (and former Reagan-administration deputy defense
secretary K.T.
McFarland) over drones, nukes, and red lines. These segments
are not what you would describe as typical exchanges on cable
television.
What about China?
Fox Business Network reporter Jo Ling Kent and author Gordon Chang
provide some welcome context and expertise. Three-war vet and radio
host Bryan
Suits talks about how military deployment creates libertarians,
and (of course!) there is a game in the middle of the show called
“Name That Dictator,” featuring contestants Tracy Byrnes and
Ellis Henican.
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