In the rush to capitalize on fear-mongering they forgot to verify some basic things, like the locations of some states.
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The discussion of whether the USA should take in 10,000 Syrian refugees has intensified following the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday.
Dozens of Democrats joined majority Republicans in the House to pass the measure on Thursday. “It’s that we can’t because there’s no way to background check someone that’s coming from Syria”.
Carson subsequently said those comments were “tongue in cheek” and that he hopes his advisers are not, in fact, better. Carson asked, mocking the media for claiming, “Carson said ‘the Syrians are like rabid dogs!'”
“Such extremist rhetoric is unbecoming of anyone who seeks our nation’s highest office and must be strongly repudiated by leaders from across the political spectrum”, said Robert McCaw’s, CAIR’s government affairs manager.
Williams said Carson ignored these questions because he does not like answering hypotheticals.
“We have an American culture, and we have things that we base our values and principles on”.
“I had one lengthy phone call with Ben Carson two months ago”, Hayden said, “and his instincts are all right, but this is a database in which he’s very unfamiliar”.
Also during his press availability Thursday, the retired neurosurgeon said he believes the Islamic State is stronger and more developed today than Al Qaeda was in both 2001 and 2003. He added that the 2001 attacks “really didn’t require a great deal of sophistication because we were not paying attention, we were not coordinating our efforts”.
“You didn’t have to be all that great”.
“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East”, said Clarridge, whom the publication described as “a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security”.
Carson said common sense dictates the need for more security to screen refugees from Syria at a time when threats against America are at an all-time high, when ISIS has already used the massive wave of refugees to infiltrate France, and American officials admit existing screening is unreliable and incomplete.
Carson has tried to distance himself from a policy adviser who told the New York Times on Tuesday that he had serious gaps in his foreign policy knowledge.
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The candidate’s coterie of advisers quickly scrambled to minimize the damage by – Exhibit B – telling Business Insider’s Pamela Engel that, in essence, Clarridge is a doddering old fart who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
