When Did it Became Impossible to Say, ‘I Don’t Know’?

When asked about how he would get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, O’Rourke stared into the eyes of the veteran who asked the question and produced several words that did not, in fact, answer anyone’s inquiry:

To be fair, the man’s question is a complicated one. Because even after the second consecutive time the man asks O’Rourke for his plan, O’Rourke — having already failed to answer the man’s question once before — was still unwilling to produce the most honest answer of all: “ I don’t know.” “There’s pretty fascinating research on something called ‘implicit leadership theory,’ which basically asks the question, what are the characteristics that make an effective leader?

Source: melmagazine.com