Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday said Islamic terrorist are like “rabid dogs” that must be removed from the Syrian refugee population before the refugees are allowed into American neighborhoods.
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“Yeah, but being responsible for the September 11 attacks, what happened right there really didn’t require a great deal of sophistication because we were not paying attention”, Carson told ABC News. “I, for one, am not willing to give all those things away just so I can be politically correct”.
Carson said, “We must always balance safety against just being a humanitarian”.
Carson has tried to distance himself from a policy adviser who told the NY Times on Tuesday that he had serious gaps in his foreign policy knowledge.
His campaign supported the more than 30 governors who rushed to close their doors to Syrian refugees this week, tweeting this hilariously deformed map of the United States. As Carson assured PBS, “You know, I know a lot more than I knew”.
Carson has opposed allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. “He’s someone who has sat in”, he said. After Mr. Carson struggled on “Fox News Sunday” to say whom he would call first to form a coalition against the Islamic State, Mr. Clarridge called Mr. Williams in frustration. “I think that applies to every aspect of our lives, particularly in a rapidly changing world”. In turn, The Times pointed out that Carson’s own team had touted Clarridge as a foreign-policy hand.
Clarridge’s independent spy ring was apparently the source of Carson’s contention during a recent Republican debate that the Chinese were involved in Syria, a claim mocked by Carson’s rivals and even the White House.
Armstrong Williams, Carson’s longtime business manager, “has nothing to do with my campaign”, Carson said.
Carson said he chose to run for president after seeing hundreds of thousands of petition signatures urging him on.
Carson’s spoke a few days after some people in and around his campaign offered public concerns about his command of foreign policy. I would try to get rid of any revenues they could derive from the oil and energy fields that they control. “As a military leader I would be privileged to call him my commander-in-chief”.
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Wednesday night: Echoing Williams’s interpretation of Clarridge’s advice-that the candidate must be more specific on how to fight ISIS-Carson appears on The O’Reilly Factor and says, “What I would do is take the war to them very specifically by getting our allies in the area”.
