Earlier this month, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt embarrassed Donald Trump on air with a series of questions about Mid-East foreign policy issues that included quizzing the GOP frontrunner on the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah as well as asking Trump to explain the significance of Iranian power brokers breaking UN travel bans to help coordinate the Syrian war effort with The Kremlin.
Trump clearly didn’t know it, but he had a great opportunity for a GOP-voter-friendly soundbite.
What he should have said, if he wanted to bolster his position with Republican primary voters who might be a bit concerned about his foreign policy credentials was something along the lines of this: “Hamas and Hezbollah are both threats to our ally Israel and when we see things like broken UN travel bans by important Iranians it means the Obama administration has weakened Washington’s position vis-a-vis Iran by signing a bad nuclear deal.”
Of course Hewitt knew Trump wouldn’t be able to answer the questions and so to be fair to the Teflon Don, it was most assuredly a media ‘gotcha’ moment, but what it did underscore is the extent to which Trump is strong on overarching foreign policy themes (‘America is weak, our leaders are losers, our deals are terrible’) and short on specifics, even when the opportunity to support his contentions literally falls into his lap.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/29/2015.
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