Carson Likens Worry About Syrian Refugees to Fear of ‘Mad Dogs’

“Mr. Clarridge, I appreciate his service as a Central Intelligence Agency agent, and he has sat in on two sessions”, Carson said.

Political adviser Duane Clarridge told The NY Times that Carson hasn’t been able to grasp the complexity of the conflict in the Middle East. We need to do everything we can. The campaign told Business Insider that the newspaper took “advantage of an elderly gentleman”. “Mr. Clarridge’s input to Dr. Carson is appreciated but he is clearly not one of Dr. Carson’s top advisers”.

The Carson campaign recently announced that it had raised the most among Republican candidates in the third quarter with $20.8 million in donations.

Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked Ben Carson’s reported lack of foreign policy knowledge as “pretty sad”, opening a new front of attack on his chief rival.

“Apparently they’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America”, President Obama said during a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino.

Though controversial, Carson is not entirely unpopular among African-American voters, as they hold him at an nearly 35 percent favorability rating, according to The Economist/YouGov survey in October. “He understands…. There’s just so much there”. He also noted that Carson is hardly alone in the field on the issue of foreign-policy experience.

Indeed, when asked Thursday who edited his op-ed on national security that ran in The Washington Post, Carson said he sent it to Williams, asking for cuts because the piece was running too long.

“We must always balance”.

ISIL has claimed responsibility for last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 132 people and injured over 350. Along with delving into the hypothetical of a shooting war with Russian Federation, Carson demurred when Wallace pressed him on which countries he would call first in attempting to build a coalition to fight Islamic State militants.

While Carson may be a new candidate on the political trail, others have been a fan for years and made it a point to be at the free event.

“It’s not the kind of thing that he should be talking about on the campaign trail”, Williams said of Carson.

“I think he has all the right reflexes and an awesome intellect to craft commonsense solutions out of complex situations”, said Dees.