Ben Carson Confused About Whether The Baltic States Are Part Of NATO

[DonViejo]

Potential Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson seemed confused on Wednesday evening about which countries belong to NATO during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

While discussing the threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin poses, Hewitt asked Carson how NATO should respond if "Putin attempts in the Baltic states anything like he’s attempted in Ukraine." Carson said that NATO "would be willing to go to war if they knew that they were backed up by us."

Hewitt then asked if the U.S. should commit to going to war with Russia over the Baltic states. "Well, if we have them involved in NATO," Carson responded. "We need to convince them to get involved in NATO and strengthen NATO."

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Hewitt told Carson he was worried about his knowledge of geography.

"What I worry about as a Republican, as a conservative, is that because you’ve been being a great neurosurgeon all these years, you haven’t been deep into geopolitics, and that the same kind of questions that tripped up Sarah Palin early in her campaign are going to trip you up," Hewitt said. "And so how are you going to navigate that, because I mean, you’ve only, have you been doing geopolitics? Do you read this stuff? Do you immerse yourself in it?"

Carson said that he's "read a lot in the last six months."

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[hobbit709]

1. Ben Carson confused. PERIOD.

[DetlefK]

2. Remember when Romney forgot that Iran (Persia!) has access to the Persian Gulf?

[packman]

3. God will talk to him and tell him

which countries are good and which are bad. God talks to all the Republican presidential hopefuls, don't you know that?

[Johonny]

4. Inside the echo chamber he will be fine

outside the echo chamber he is already a sad joke.

[pampango]

5. "Carson said that he's "read a lot in the last six months." "There’s a lot of material to learn.

There's no question about that," he said.

Sounds like he's on the same crash-effort to learn something about the world that Palin tried in 2008.