Carson: Middle Eastern countries should absorb Syrian refugees

He met with medical professionals, humanitarian workers and government officials on Saturday, as well talked to Syrians who were forced to flee their country.

Middle Eastern countries should absorb the millions of displaced Syrian refugees fleeing civil war in their country, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Saturday following a visit to a refugee camp in Jordan. We must find a political end to this conflict. Last yr, Zaatari became Jordan’s fourth-largest community, with greater than 80,000 refugees, complete with restaurants, cafes & sellers hawking items together with vegetables & used garments.

Jordan is a small country.

He said many organizations are trying to help injured Syrians and refugees, but they are overwhelmed. “We need real solutions”, Carson said in a statement released by Brownback’s office. Many of those refugees live in squalid camps run by the United Nations, which in 2015 experienced a US$900 million funding shortfall.

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, however – carried out by citizens of France, not refugees from Syria – the U.S. Congress voted to block the resettlement of refugees more than half the governors in the U.S. said they would refuse to allow Syrians to be resettled within their states. Advisers have conceded that his foreign policy fluency isn’t where it needs to be and have expressed hope missions like his two-day trip to Jordan will help change that. The government and the U.S. Embassy in Amman were informed of the trip this week, said several individuals familiar with the trip who were not authorized to speak to the media. The campaign has restricted journalist access to the tour, according to The Associated Press, and has declined to provide his itinerary. Last week, he likened blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees to handling a rabid dog.

“For Carson, it gives him a lot of difficulty”, said Andy Smith, the director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

“If there’s a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog”, Carson said.

“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East”, Clarridge told the Times, adding that Carson needs weekly conference calls on foreign policy so “we can make him smart”.