Why? ISIS doesn’t have an air force."
Right. What we need to impose is a "no pickup zone":
How exactly do you acquire that many white Toyota pickup trucks in Syria, anyway?
Posted on 11/16/2015 3:35:35 PM PST by conservativejoy
Fox News Sunday tried to ask Ben Carson some policy questions about the terrorist attack in Paris, and the result was a dose of insanity that include a lectured on brain sizes, and Carson's support for a shooting war with Russia.
Carson was asked four times by host Chris Wallace what his response to the Paris attacks would be if he were president, and he couldn't answer, but the real crazy was yet to come.
In response to the question about whether the US should accept refugees from Syria, Carson went on a rant about the human brain:
WALLACE: The Obama administration has said before that it would accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees as part of the humanitarian crisis. We now learn that one of these attackers had a Syrian passport that indicated he had been part of the refugee flood into Europe in October. Would you continue that policy?
CARSON: Well, you know, as I've said all along, you know, bringing people into this country from that area of the world I think is a huge mistake. Because why wouldn't they infiltrate them with people who are ideologically opposed to us? It would be foolish for them not to do that. So, we need to be very compassionate to understand that these people have been displaced and we should use our expertise and resources to help get them resettle over there, and to support them over there, but to bring them here under these circumstances is a suspension of intellect.
You know, the reason that the human brain has these big frontal lobes as opposed to other animals, because we can engage in rational thought processing, we can, you know, extract information from the past, the present, process it and project it into a plan. Animals, on the other hand, have big brain stems and rudimentary things, because they react. We don't have to just react, we can think.
Carson took crazy to another level when he suggested getting into a shooting war with Russia in Syria:
WALLACE: Dr. Carson what happens if the Russians respond to that by shooting down one of our planes?
CARSON: I would do that in conjunction with the Turkish forces along the Syrian/Turkish border where a huge number of those refugees located. It's a humanitarian thing to try to provide them a safe haven for now.
WALLACE: But sir, if I may press my-
CARSON: And I would make sure that the Russians understood that we are going to do that.
WALLACE: If I may press my point, what do you do if – after we shoot down a Russian plane, they shoot down one of ours?
CARSON: If they violate it, we will, in fact, enforce it. And, you know, we'll see what happened. You know, too, for us to always be backing down because we are afraid of a conflict, that's not how we became a great nation, Chris.
WALLACE: But you're talking about getting potentially into a shooting war with Russia over Syria?
CARSON: Well, if we established a no fly zone and we make clear the rules, if they violate it, that's why you have a no-fly zone. That's the very definition of a no fly zone. You can't fly there.
Ben Carson was asked policy question about the kind of unexpected crisis that all presidents must deal with, and he showed that he is completely unfit for office.
Rambling about the size of the human brain is not answer to a question about continuing the policy of accepting Syrian refugees. The idea that the United States could get into a shooting war with Russia to protect a no fly zone in Syria was flat out insane.
Over the weekend, top Republicans privately admitted that they viewed both Carson and Trump as unfit to be Commander In Chief. Republicans are terrified that Trump or Carson will win their party's nomination and lead the party to a crushing defeat. After Carson's appearance on Fox News, he appears to be even less sane than Trump.
Ben Carson's success as a presidential candidate demonstrates just how crazy Republican voters have become.
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>> “What mattered was to have peace through strength. And if strength means pissing the vodka soaked Slavs off every now and then, I have no objections to it. It’s far better then hiding under a desk with your head up your azz.” <<
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AMEN!
Cowardice wins nothing but defeat.
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Why? ISIS doesn’t have an air force."
Right. What we need to impose is a "no pickup zone":
How exactly do you acquire that many white Toyota pickup trucks in Syria, anyway?
The no fly zone idea was intended to provide a safe haven from Assad so the refugees would not have to flee the region. It might have been a good idea at one time, but that ship sailed long ago.
Yeah, I’ll try to watch posting those word for word transcripts from now on.
Good point.
THIS. RIGHT HERE. IT NEEDS TO BE HEARD BY EVERYONE:
“I don’t understand this rhetoric from Carson, Fiorina, and Rubio (so far) that we ought to impose a “no-fly zone†over Syria.
“Why? ISIS doesn’t have an air force.
“A no-fly zone would accomplish what, exactly? Why is it an American national security priority to prevent planes from overflying a particular portion of Syria?
“No one has actually made that case yet. They just assert it as though it’s an established fact, which seems crazy to me.”
((slow clap))
“What reason do we have to start WWIII? What would we gain? What would we lose by not starting WWIII?”
I don’t know what the reason might be, we have plenty of them in the cookie jar.
We would gain a end to the conflict that never ends. But wars are costly for both sides. I assure you that we will not start it, but Russia keeps pushing. The more people here say things as you do, the harder he is going to push.
Yes, Obama is weak and that weakness is being exploited, just as Putin exploited Bush’s attempts to reset the relationship.
Any sign of weakness to a Russian is a invitation to exploit it.
Something you really need to understand if you are going to take a geo-political position.
Russia is not in Syria to deal a blow it ISIS. They are allied with Iran and Iran sees ISIS as a useful issue they can easily exploit and they are doing so as we speak in Iraq.
It would not surprise me at all if it were discovered that a Iranian linked group was funneling aid and information to ISIS.
What Russia is really there for is to run interference between Obama’s meager attempts to arm and train opposition groups to Assad.
Initially they even attacked the Kurds..
They are doing everything they can get away with and nobody wants to piss them off, and they know it..
So as long as you present a weak side to Russia, you will never have a war with them, just the threat but they will eventually have you in a checkmate situation. And all due to your weakness.
It’s how they roll....
*sigh* Well now I know that you really didn't understand anything Carson said.
“Carson and Hillary are on the same page with a shooting war with Russia.”
... and iCarley and Yeb.
ALL of them have spouted off the same crap.
No you won't. You'll search for more flame bait. Your type always does.
I understood everything Carson said. I just thought it was irresponsible about shooting down Russian planes and sounded too much like Hillary.
That was a cut and paste from another poster, BTW.
If Carson’s words flame him, so be it.
“And YOU are calling a gifted neurosurgeon an idiot? Really?”
I’ll do it!
CARSON IS AN IDIOT.
Hardly.
and sounded too much like Hillary.
LOLOL!!! And you believed her?!
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I suspect that this article is exposing who the real loons are. This is embarrassing. I once thought Freepers had some substance going for them.
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I read their post and you cut off the fact that he wasn't calling Carson an idiot, he was using it as a qualifier for a group.
Carson shares this particular idea with Kasich, Bush, Rubio, Fiorina, Christie, Graham and Clinton. IMHO it's a stupid idea. So if this makes Carson an inexperienced idiot then it makes all of them inexperienced idiots.
How many lives have you saved?
He does share her position on Russia.
Carson also supports amnesty, gun control and TPP. Not position I could ever support.
They didn't but it wasn't for lack of trying on your part by using a liberal rag to do it.
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