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Middle East geography, brought to you by Ben Carson...

Ben Carson may be brilliant when it comes to neurosurgery, but as one of the two GOP front-runners recently said himself, the man appears to suffer from a "suspension of intellect" when it comes to many other topics. One of his very own advisers brought this further to light in a recent New York Times article.

When speaking to reporter Trip Gabriel, Carson's foreign policy adviser, Duane Clarridge, said this with regard to one of the GOP candidate's shortcomings:

"Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East."

That's right; the man polling either first or second in most GOP polls, potentially representing the party seemingly obsessed with being at permanent war with "radical Muslims" in the Middle East, apparently knows less about that region of the world than a newborn knows about quantum physics.

GOP: "Our #1 priority shouldn't be creating jobs, nor with regards to equality; it should be to protect our country from Middle Eastern Muslim extremists!"

Carson's adviser: "Ben Carson knows next to nothing about the Middle East. As a matter of fact, that may be too high of praise for the man."

GOP: "This is our guy!"

Given this bit of information, expect for Ben Carson to utter the following lines at some point in the future (if he hasn't already):

- "I'm frightened by both major groups of Muslims, the Sunny people and the Bedsheets."

- "I don't listen to rock music, because I believe Iraq derived from people in Boston saying, 'I rock.'"

- "Would it take a long time for me to actually run to Iran?"

- "What's Islam anyway? If Christians practice Christianity, wouldn't Muslims practice Muslimanity?"

- "I'm not sure where Syria is, but we should not allow any of their refugees to come here! Wait, isn't that the show in Las Vegas? Syria du Sol or something like that?"

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/17/9751240/ben-carson-foreign-policy
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