Too many white people in top national security positions

[Benton]

(05-15-2016, 06:14 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Im curious, but when it comes to national security, shouldn't we have the most qualified people regardless of race and/or ethnicity? People like her can cause more bad than good with statements like this concerning our security, because she basically is saying we need more minorities in charge regardless of qualifications. And in a roundabout way, she basically is saying there are just too many white people. If it was up to some, there would probably be limits on number of white children allowed to be born so minorities can catch up.

It depends on how you measure qualifications. 

Cent comm and intelligence communities tends to be the same demographic: middle age white guys from middle to upper middle class homes who went into the military, mixed in with who tend to be older white guys from middle to upper middle class homes who went into college. Nothing makes them unqualified, but an analyst who grew up in the suburbs of Louisville or an adviser who spent most of his life in prep schools and meetings probably aren't the best at understanding what someone of a different race, from a different economic status, and in a different part of the world is thinking. 

It's not about minorities or quotas, it's about the fact that there are lots of different people out there. And sometimes the best people to figure out what those people are doing are those people.