When it comes to foreign policy, the Republican presidential candidates are shockingly ill-informed
Foreign policy was hardly the centerpiece of the Republican candidates’ first debate, but when the topic came up, their answers revealed that none of these White House hopefuls have given the world and its problems an hour of serious thought.
The 5 o’clock B-team debate—among the seven contenders whose poll rankings disqualified them from Fox News’ prime-time slot—spent more time on foreign policy, but the picture wasn’t pretty.
Rick Santorum took credit for the Iran sanctions because he was in the U.S. Senate when they were approved. Gov. Bobby Jindal said we were losing the war on terror because President Obama refuses to call our enemy “radical Islamic terrorism.” (Presumably ISIS will be vanquished, like Beetlejuice, when President Jindal utters these words three times.)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the saddest-looking man in politics, said repeatedly, even when the question wasn’t asked, that he would send American ground troops back to Iraq and Syria, and anyone who wouldn’t isn’t “ready to be commander-in-chief.” (Give Graham marks for taking a stand that will earn him no support, not even from senior U.S. military officers.)
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/08/republican_candidates_show_little_foreign_policy_knowledge_in_gop_debates.html
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