For a man who wants to be U. S. commander-in-chief and who claims that he has a better plan for the Middle East, he sure doesn't know even the basic geography of the region. During the debate on Monday night Romney made this statement:
"Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea."
Is the man an idiot or does he think all of the rest of us are? As the map above mockingly indicates, Romney apparently is oblivious to the fact that (1) Iran and Syria share no common border and (2) Iran has a lengthy coastline on the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It's pretty frightening and puts Romney in the same league as Sarah Palin who claimed she could see Russia from her house in Wasilla, Alaska (which is impossible). If Romney doesn't know this basic geography, he's to stupid and far too uninformed to be president.
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While I agree with most things you put out, this is one that doesn't necessarily show Mitt's stupidity. In a debate, making an off comment can be just considered a mistake. There are many more examples of him changing his views, and telling truths only as he sees them, that I can over look something like this. I would consider the biggest fallacy of his campaign to be his repeated words of this country needing leadership, and he thinks he is the one to do it, but his version of america changes depending on who he is talking to.
So don't call him stupid on this single issue, because there are many more, and better, examples for that.
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