Huckabee staffer: He needs to be 'briefed' on Pakistan

CNN ^ | December 28, 2007 | Dana Bash

[Defiant]

You make very good points. All it would take to have had a decent response on this would be to have a young staffer with some university education to give briefings to Huck on Pakistan. Someone who reads the papers daily, studied recent history and knows the names of the players, the dynamics involved, what Waziristan is, about the tension between the ISI and Musharef, about the history of the establishment of the Taliban, etc. Instead, it seems he is using one of his campaign consultants or advisors who knows as little as he does to give him briefings.

I mentioned that Bush didn't know who Musharef was in 2000, but the fact is, after 9-11, every candidate should be an expert on all those things. Huck is even more scary because we have no idea what he thinks because he has never thought on those subjects, and we don't know whose advice he would follow when he had to make decisions. My guess, based on his past, he would try to make the elites happy, and would become a puppet of the State Dept. and NY Times.

[Defiant]

since September 11, he's been playing both ends in the middle to survive

Huck is apparently not familiar with this term in the middle of a statement that someone wrote for him.

[rob777]

"Huckabee staffer: He needs to be 'briefed' on Pakistan"


Given the importance of Pakistan to national security, this is something that a serious candidate would have done "BEFORE" he decided to run.

[keepitreal]

Amen.

One can’t just run for President and not think that knowledge of foreign policy, especially in the world’s hotspots, can be left for when the need arises, then cram for the test (or be briefed by people who use the Denver Post as their source of information).