Posted on 11/13/2015 5:48:37 PM PST by springwater13
ORLANDO — Ben Carson stumbled Friday evening while responding to a question about how he would respond to the terror attacks in Paris if he were president. Carson said he would employ "things that they don't know about resources" against terrorists, but struggled to specify what an American response under his leadership might look like.
"I would be working with our allies, using every resource known to man: in terms of economic resources, in terms of covert resources… military resources… things-that-they-don't-know-about resources… not to contain them, but to eliminate them, before they eliminate us," Carson told reporters at the Sunshine Summit, a gathering of Republican leaders.
Carson has been tripped up by foreign policy questions before. At the Republican presidential debates earlier this week, the doctor suggested that there were Chinese troops in Syria, even though there is no evidence that this is the case. The doctor, known for his calm and quiet demeanor, was asked whether he had the personality to respond to terrorist attack if president.
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He might lock them up in the grain vaults inside the pyramids.
Pig blood barrel bombs?
I’m sure there are some really interesting weapons and military resources that are unknown to the public, but it sounds dumb to talk that way.
Keep this clueless man far, far from the White House.
“...not to contain them, but to eliminate them, before they eliminate us...”
Not sure where he is supposed to have stumbled.
I wish we could take a tour of the black projects.
Totally agree. But the affirmative action wing of FR will disagree and say we need to support Carson so the NY Times won’t say meanie old things about us.
Dr. Carson, I hope you enjoy your retirement.
These are stupid questions. I’m quite sure Hollande could not have anticipated his response until he was there. Damn reporters are felony stupid.
This fool was undoubtedly coached by his debate team to use the word “eliminate”, but his rhetoric certainly isn’t consistent with someone who wants to eliminate ISIS. I wouldn’t put it past Carson to be a member of ISIS himself.
Open Planned Parenthoods all through the Middle East?
Sadly, with this man as President, these terrorists would be emboldened to attack us. They know Carson is weak and clueless. The question is, are the American people clueless enough to elect him?
“”I would be working with our allies,”
There you go, a reciepe for failure. “Our Allies” are one of our biggest problems, they are all for “joining a coalition,” just so long as it’s only add int their name to a bloated list of countries that expect to let America shoulder the load. O.K., so be it, President Trump will have absolutely no problem telling all of them to step aside if they are just a pack of limp dicks. And while he’s at it, he needs to tell the UN that their “lease is up,” and it’s time to find some other place to hold their anti-American meetings while scoffing at our laws and bleeding us for about one quarter of the world’s bill.
Yes. I think the press stumbled in their grammar.
The headline had me confused, as did the first repeat of that in the text.
But they then printed it right, proving the absolute necessity of hyphens so neglected by everyone these days. Hyphens completely changed the meaning of that confounding phrase.
Bad timing. Obama wants to take away their smokes, so they’re likely to be irritable.
The American people are clueless enough to elect Hillary Clinton.
Others are clueless enough to elect Bernie Sanders.
There are some incredibly stupid people in this country, as well as almost every other western country.
We have cornered the market on stupid.
May that evil Carson rot for what he said about Terri.
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