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Ben Carson is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html

Ben Carson’s remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed, on national television, to name the countries he would call on to form a coalition to fight the Islamic State.

Faced with increasing scrutiny about whether Mr. Carson, who leads in some Republican presidential polls, was capable of leading American foreign policy, two of his top advisers said in interviews that he had struggled to master the intricacies of the Middle East and national security and that intense tutoring was having little effect.

“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East,” said Duane R. Clarridge, a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security. He also said Mr. Carson needed weekly conference calls briefing him on foreign policy so “we can make him smart.”
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Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
 
I saw "Ben Carson Is Struggling" and I thought it would say "to stay awake". You broke my heart Mr T!
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Slip it into Egypt? I wonder, if wants to tell them.
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Shades of Sarah Palin. I actually thought that when I watched the video from last week. This article just reaffirms it.
 
Well he's not my candidate that's for sure, but he is a good man, and 10 times better than who we have now, no doubt about it!

What I find funny is that, unlike democrats who will run to the voting booths after the new year to select Hillary Clinton to be their Dem nominee have no footing when criticizing republican primary voters on the legitimacy of their choices.. ;)


Tim-
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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The Palestinian comment was so unlikely on the face of it that I had to track it down. It appears to be real.

We need to look at fresh ideas," said Carson. "I don't have any problem with the Palestinians having a state, but does it need to be within the confines of Israeli territory? Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt? Right below Israel, they have some amount of territory, and it can be adjacent. They can benefit from the many agricultural advances that were made by Israel, because if you fly over that area, you can easily see the demarcation between Egypt and Israel, in terms of one being desert and one being verdant. Technology could transform that area. So why does it need to be in an area where there's going to be temptation for Hamas to continue firing missiles at relatively close range to Israel?
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Ben Carson: Arm Ukraine, Expand NATO, Rethink Russia's Position on UN Security Council - Bloomberg Politics

Honest question: does Carson spend most of the day just looking at his hands and laughing uncontrollably?
 
President Carson will create a Palestinian State in Egypt and have them store their grain in the pyramids.
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Seems easy enough.

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MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Oh dear, then as if there wasn't already enough reasons to remove him from the line up, there most certainly is now.
 
I confess that I had moderate hopes for Carson. He seems like a very accomplished man in his field. In spite of Republican assurances that Carson is no worse than Obama, it seems every day there are reports of him misspeaking, saying crazy ****, or just straight up lying. With these last 2, it seems that the man is being criticized even by his own people. That doesn't paint a good picture when the people you hired, the people running against you, and the people on your own party are all united against you.
 
Hicup said:
Well he's not my candidate that's for sure, but he is a good man, and 10 times better than who we have now, no doubt about it!

What I find funny is that, unlike democrats who will run to the voting booths after the new year to select Hillary Clinton to be their Dem nominee have no footing when criticizing republican primary voters on the legitimacy of their choices.. ;)


Tim-
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A: 5

Q: How many posts does it take before a criticism of a republican presidential candidate gets deflected with "b...b...but Hillary!" ?
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Hey, give the man a break. I don't think Carson's doing all that bad. I like his idea about quelling riots in the middle east by giving them the grain that the Pharaohs stored in the pyramids. He says that idea was given to him by King Tut while they were together at West Point. :mrgreen:
 
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Absentglare said:
A: 5

Q: How many posts does it take before a criticism of a republican presidential candidate gets deflected with "b...b...but Hillary!" ?
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The point is that conservatives, and republicans here on this site openly criticize republican candidates, but I do not see that happening nearly with the frequency it is when dems criticize Hillary. That's the point.

Tim-
 
Hicup said:
The point is that conservatives, and republicans here on this site openly criticize republican candidates, but I do not see that happening nearly with the frequency it is when dems criticize Hillary. That's the point.

Tim-
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Have you ever considered that maybe the republican candidates just supply an order of magnitude more to criticize?
 
MrT said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/u...ing-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html



Carson also noted that he supported a Palestinian state, but questioned whether it might be possible to "slip it into Egypt." LOL.

When asked about this quote from Clarridge, Mr. Carson claimed that "he is not my adviser." Instead, "he is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinion of what is going on."

So....an adviser?

Your number two most supported Republican Presidential Candidate, ladies and gentlemen.
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Our current DEMOCRAT president, is standing in the Middle East with his pants down around his ankles.
 
American said:
Our current DEMOCRAT president, is standing in the Middle East with his pants down around his ankles.
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Riiight. I will ignore the fact that your post is absolutely irrelevant to this thread and just note this response:

Because launching more air strikes than nearly every other country combined and being responsible for the death of dozens of terrorist leaders, including Osama Bin Laden and most recently the leader of ISIS in Syria, Wisam al Zubaidi, counts as "pants around his ankles."
 
MrT said:
Riiight. I will ignore the fact that your post is absolutely irrelevant to this thread and just note this response:

Because launching more air strikes than nearly every other country combined and being responsible for the death of dozens of terrorist leaders, including Osama Bin Laden and most recently the leader of ISIS in Syria, Wisam al Zubaidi, counts as "pants around his ankles."
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Yes it does, because every military expert says they can't be defeated without troops.
 
Hicup said:
The point is that conservatives, and republicans here on this site openly criticize republican candidates, but I do not see that happening nearly with the frequency it is when dems criticize Hillary. That's the point.

Tim-
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I criticize Hillary all the time.

I'm just not sold on the perverse lies the right regurgitates to demonize their opponent.

Your inability to perceive criticism does not prove the criticism does not exist.

Further, this is all quite tangent. If you want republican candidates to be criticized less, why don't you start by getting better candidates ?
 
American said:
Yes it does, because every military expert says they can't be defeated without troops.
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This is not like wars we are familiar with. Conventional methods have been shown to make the problem worse.
 
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