Carson said it would set a “pretty risky precedent” to single someone out due to their religion.
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In a “Fox News Sunday” interview, Carson was unable to name the foreign leader he would call first as he developed an ISIS strategy.
“We don’t want to do anything that’s going to increase the danger to our citizens”, he said, ” but at the time, we want to be compassionate”.
“She never expected excuses from us”, Carson said. We need a new president fast.
“We have to target and defeat and time is of the essence”, Clinton said. “But when you’re in the political world, that can become quite explosive, and that can be lost on me”. I would try to get rid of any revenues they could derive from the oil and energy fields that they control. You know a few of those people…
The successful campaign by the Iraqi Kurds to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State was an operation backed by the United States and viewed as a success for the Obama administration shortly before the Paris attacks.
Carson, so far, has been able to keep his campaign alive and well by pointing fingers at the media whenever a few of his more controversial statements – like saying Nazis couldn’t have killed as many Jews if the Jews had been armed, or likening abortion to slavery – are criticized.
However, when a reporter asked Carson who he consulted with about his recent op-ed in The Washington Post, the candidate said he sent the column to Williams to edit.
“By mainstreaming Islamophobic and unconstitutional policies, Donald Trump and Ben Carson are contributing to an already toxic environment that may be hard to correct once their political ambitions have been satisfied”, said CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw.
At a campaign stop in Alabama on Thursday, Carson again repeated the misinformation that the US lacks any vetting system, calling it “foolish” to allow Syrians into the U.S.at this time.
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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. But he said Americans are justified in seeing threats from Muslim refugees and the USA shouldn’t “completely change who we are as Americans just so we can look like good people”.
