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womanofthehills

(8,702 posts)
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 05:03 PM Oct 2016

Gary Johnson trashes leaders who know geography: ‘It allows them to put our military in harm’s way’

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson suggested on Tuesday that the United States would be less likely to engage in foreign conflicts if its president did not have a firm grasp on world geography.

During an interview on MSNBC, Johnson became testy as he defended a series of recent foreign policy gaffes, including not knowing about the Syrian city of Aleppo and being unable to name a single foreign leader.

“Talking about a foreign leader I respect, I have a hard time with that one,” Johnson told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. “That’s just who I am. And now I’m going to have to pick out a world leader and there’s going to be something wrong with them. And now I’m going to have to defend them! Well, maybe I think too much.”

“You are running to be commander-in-chief,” Mitchell reminded the candidate.

“Yeah, and you know what?” Johnson trumpeted back. “The fact that somebody can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a foreign leader or a geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s way!”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gary-johnson-trashes-leaders-who-know-geography-it-allows-them-to-put-our-military-in-harms-way/
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Gary Johnson trashes leaders who know geography: ‘It allows them to put our military in harm’s way’ (Original Post) womanofthehills Oct 2016 OP
The Guy is such a Stoop. Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #1
He is an Idiot. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2016 #2
Ignorant know-nothing. A description that fits both the candidate and his followers. nt BobbyDrake Oct 2016 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. The Guy is such a Stoop.
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 05:12 PM
Oct 2016

If anyone wants to see how he Governs,look no further than his State of New Mexico. What a disaster,just another Kansas with a view.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,611 posts)
2. He is an Idiot.
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 05:22 PM
Oct 2016

The "leader" who doesn't know where countries are won't know where his troops are going........or what they will find there, or who they'll be fighting, or for what ends.

Geography is Knowledge, Idiot.

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