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Via Free Beacon:
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was asked about how he would handle Aleppo if he was elected president by Mike Barnicle on Thursday’s Morning Joe.
Johnson did not know what Aleppo was.
“And what is Aleppo?” Johnson said.
“You’re kidding,” Barnicle said.
He then explained it was a Syrian city that was at the epicenter of the war-torn country’s refugee crisis.
“Okay. Got it. Well, with regard to Syria, I do think that it is a mess,” Johnson said. “I think the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end but when we align ourselves with – when we’ve supported the opposition, the Free Syrian Army, the Free Syrian Army coupled with the Islamists and the the fact that we’re also supporting the Kurds and that is, it’s just a mess. And that this is the result of regime change that we end up supporting and inevitably these regime changes have led to a less safe world.”
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough asked Johnson if he thought that foreign policy was so insignificant and that a presidential candidate should know what Aleppo is.
“I do understand Aleppo and I understand the crisis that is going on,” Johnson said.