Carson Says Debate Questions About Foreign Policy Will Be A ‘Slam Dunk’

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida event benefiting the group's scholarship fund Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Former brain surgeon Ben Carson is looking forward to a debate chock full of question on foreign policy, according to an informal brief video he posted on Youtube Tuesday, while en route to Las Vegas.

Carson, who has struggled to grasp foreign policy intricacies on the campaign trail, posted a peculiar video Tuesday morning saying “I sure hope that we are going to get a lot of questions about foreign affairs and national defense.”

“If so, slam dunk,” Carson said.

During the campaign, Carson has struggled to articulate a clear way to defeat the Islamic State and he accused China of being involved in the civil war in Syria.

Carson’s own advisers have gone on record criticizing their candidate’s lack of mastery of world affairs. Duane Clarridge– a former CIA spook turned self-financed spy– told the New York Times that Carson was in dire need of a weekly briefing.

The video suggests Carson is keenly aware that his support is slipping and the debate stage Tuesday night may be his last chance to prove to voters he’s got foreign policy under control.

As Carson says in his video, “It should be fun.”

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  1. Doesn’t Carson know that the term “Slam Dunk” in modern parlance as it relates to foreign affairs has come to mean a massive boondoggle and royal fuck-up?? Only Carson wouldn’t know this apparently.

  2. The answers are so easy. Who knew? Guess we’re not playing three or four dimensional chess here.

  3. The “basket” in play…

  4. Foreign policy is not really hard if you hate all foreigners and believe wars solve all modern problems.

  5. You can get the Medal of Freedom for executing a Slam Dunk in certain circles

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