Gennifer Flowers.

[Dill]

(10-12-2016, 01:20 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: Here I've been enjoying following this conversation and Johnson's entire body of work is reduced to two small moments.
One was a trap question from the get-go and the other because he doesn't get the same briefings and has a smaller amount of time (from running his campaign with less people and doing a ton of his own leg-work) to study the geography of Syria.
Take a moment to look up the date of the Aleppo question and then find the earliest date in a search for Gary speaking about his solutions for Syria.
Don't tell me he doesn't know anything about foreign policy.... Kerry hustled right over and done exactly as Johnson suggested should be done..

Furthermore...  why are the children in Aleppo more important than any other children in the world ?
What about children in war-torn parts of Africa ?
Oh...that's right, we can't attempt to tea-bag the Russians there.
No oil pipelines to lay in those areas.
Israel has no interest in THAT region.

Sorry my comments riled you, Roto; you are a good guy, and I don't want a flame war with you.

But I do stick by my point about Johnson's lack of foreign policy knowledge.

Neither of the questions he flunked was a "trap," and neither required any special briefing. It's no defense that Trump
says equally stupid things.

Perhaps many Americans know little of Aleppo, but what "average" Americans know is not the standard for president.  
(Could he not recognize Aleppo, but recognize names like Dabiq, Al Raqqa, or group names like Al Nusra? very doubtful.)
Whatever "proposals" he has put forward regarding the Middle-East, they do not appear based upon a long-standing familiarity with problems in a region which has been the storm center of U.S. foreign policy since 1979.

And someone running for president should be able to reel off a number of world leaders worthy of praise, as
many average Americans can.  Johnson may indeed be a great individual, someone I would be happy to have as a
friend and neighbor. I don't doubt he was a great governor, and I could vote for him at the local/state level over most any Republican. But I want someone running for president to know more than I do about foreign policy.

I don't understand why you think my comments presume greater concern for children of Syria than those of Africa or
wherever. Concern for children is not a zero sum game, as if empathy with children suffering one country automatically devalues children somewhere else.  If I band aid a child who has fallen off his bike on my sidewalk, it hardly means I think his life is more valuable the life of a child in Angola.