You don’t have to know every name but you do have to have an understanding of the gravity of the threat, the basic players and the willingness to take it on once you’re in.
Via Weekly Standard:
Radio host Hugh Hewitt interviewed Donald Trump Thursday and asked the Republican frontrunner some details on foreign policy. After Trump confused some terminology, he accused Hewitt of asking “gotcha questions.”
Hewitt, who will also be moderating CNN’s September 16 presidential debate, first asked Trump if he was familiar with General Qasem Soleimani. When Trump asked for a little more information about Soleimani, Hewitt said, “He runs the Quds Forces,” the Iranian military unit that engages in terrorism and guerilla tactics outside of Iran. But Trump seemed to have confused that term with the Kurds, an ethnic group being targeted by ISIS in northern Iraq.
“The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated,” Trump began.
General Soleimani went to Russia in violation of the sanctions against Iran. The Obama regime’s response? Not condemnatory, not we wouldn’t make the deal if you keep violating the rules, but ‘we’re concerned’. But you can’t criticize them for the underreaction if you don’t know who he is. Ted Cruz was asked a question about him in the debate and answered it very well.