Ben Carson compares some refugees to ‘rabid’ dogs

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson on Thursday compared refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war and Islamic State extremists to rabid dogs.

Those attacks, he said, “really didn’t require a great deal of sophistication because we weren’t really paying attention”.

Trump added that he understood what his foreign-policy advisers said “within about two seconds”.

Then Tuesday, a sometimes-campaign adviser on intelligence issues trashed Carson in The NY Times, suggesting the candidate simply can’t grasp Middle Eastern politics.

The Republican presidential candidate was in town for several campaign appearances, including stops at Prichard Preparatory School and St. Paul’s Episcopal School in advance of a rally tonight at the University of South Alabama. You had to be able to fly a couple of planes.

Still, Williams said he’d be fine reining in his roll as surrogate, saying he’d like to see the campaign bring on more spokespeople to act as public faces for Carson.

President Barack Obama has said he wants to admit 10,000 refugees within a year, after close vetting.

“It’s an ongoing process”, he said during a satellite interview with WHO-TV in Des Moines.

“I would use every resource available to us”, Carson said when asked how he would achieve that goal.

Clarridge’s independent spy ring was apparently the source of Carson’s contention during a recent Republican debate that the Chinese were involved in Syria, a claim mocked by Carson’s rivals and even the White House. And a few people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule.

“The secular progressive movement in this country does not like Judeo-Christian values”, Carson said.

“Mr. Clarridge has incomplete knowledge of the daily, not weekly briefings, that Dr. Carson receives on important national security matters from former military and State Department officials”, Carson spokesperson Doug Watts said in a statement obtained by CNN.

“I know they’re frustrated”, Williams said of the team advising Carson. “As a military leader I would be privileged to call him my commander-in-chief”. If that is true, it would seem that the candidates with the most to lose are Donald Trump and Ben Carson, who now lead the GOP field.