Unasked questions, missed answers

In his New York Times column earlier this year, Frank Rich commented on how the balloon boy incident sums up what type of society we have become:

"'They put on a very good show for us, and we bought it,' the local sheriff, Jim Alderden, said last weekend, when he alleged that 'balloon boy' was a hoax. His words could stand as the epitaph for an era."

Rich seemed to state best the destructive passivity our society has been leaning towards. And perhaps no one bears the weight of this guilt as much as journalists do. In the months before the Iraq War, journalists failed to question the Bush administration's decisions to go to war, silence that cost two countries.

Thankfully, Jane Mayer has compiled a list of questions about the details of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the New Yorker that remain unanswered.

Now that we have the questions, I hope someone is asking them.