Pageant Questions: Terrorism

Beauty Pageant Sample Questions About Terrorism, National Security

• Where were you on September 11, 2001? How did you react to the Twin Towers attacks?


• What is "Benghazi-gate" and what are your views on it?


• Do you think the concerns about possible biological terrorism in the United States are exaggerated?


• In what is being called "Benghazi-gate", critics have claimed that there is a cover-up of the Obama administration's handling of the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya by terrorists. What are your views on charges that the President mislead the country that the attack was a response to an Internet video?


• Should the United States government legally be allowed to kill Americans suspected of being involved in terrorism?


• In defense of the Obama administration's policy that the U.S. government can legally kill Americans linked to terrorism, Attorney General Eric Holder cited the case of the fatal military drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen, and claimed that the Constitution does not protect U.S. citizens suspected of plotting to kill other Americans. Do you agree or disagree with the Attorney General's views, and why or why not?


• Do you think we will ever face another 9-11?


• The United States Constitution applies only to U.S. citizens and thereby does not provide protections to non-Americans charged with terrorism.  What do you think of lawyers and politicians who try to afford the protections of our Constitution to such accused terrorists?


• Nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists pose the gravest potential danger facing the United States. Do you feel that our nation is doing enough to prepare for a possible nuclear attack?


• Do you think we live in the most dangerous generation ever?


• How should we handle reporters and White House staff members who reveal the identity of a CIA or other undercover officer's identity?


• After US Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Ladin, mastermind of the 9-11 Twin Towers massacre of over 3,000 Americans, it was revealed that the act of "water-boarding" accused terrorists who had been captured "extracted" critical information such as the names of Bin Ladin's couriers, that led to Bin Ladin being located. In light of this revelation, do you feel water-boarding is a legitimate means of obtaining information necessary to keep Americans safe, or is it "torture" that should be banned?


• The Supreme Court has decided that terrorism suspects who are captured abroad and held in U.S. prisons in Guantanamo Bay have "rights" and can challenge the legality of their detention in U.S. federal courts. What is your reaction?


• In regard to Chinese nuclear espionage, is Congress doing enough to prevent future losses of sensitive information and prevent information that has already been stolen from damaging US and global security?


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