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Related: About this forumGary 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. Thats just who I am. And now Im going to have to pick out a world leader and theres going to be something wrong with them. And now Im 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 is and cross the ts on a foreign leader or a geographic location then allows them to put our military in harms way!
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gary-johnson-trashes-leaders-who-know-geography-it-allows-them-to-put-our-military-in-harms-way/
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. Thats just who I am. And now Im going to have to pick out a world leader and theres going to be something wrong with them. And now Im 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 is and cross the ts on a foreign leader or a geographic location then allows them to put our military in harms 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
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.
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.
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.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)3. Ignorant know-nothing. A description that fits both the candidate and his followers. nt