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Libertarian Gary Johnson Makes Embarrassing Slip-Up on MSNBC

<p>Libertarian candidate and former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson may have just ruined his entire campaign&period; When asked&comma; &ldquo&semi;What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo&quest;&rdquo&semi; the stunned politician replied&comma; &ldquo&semi;And what is Aleppo&quest;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;You&rsquo&semi;re kidding&comma;&rdquo&semi; replied political commentator Mike Barnicle&period; &ldquo&semi;Aleppo is in Syria and the epicenter of the refugee crisis&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Johnson quickly recovered and gave a surprisingly vague answer&colon; &ldquo&semi;Well&comma; with regard to Syria&comma; I do think that it&rsquo&semi;s a mess&period; And I think the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that to an end&period; But when we&rsquo&semi;ve aligned ourselves with&comma; when we&rsquo&semi;ve supported the opposition&&num;8230&semi;the Free Syrian Army is also coupled with the Islamists&comma; and then the fact that we&rsquo&semi;re also supporting the Kurds&period; And this is &ndash&semi; it&rsquo&semi;s just a mess&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Johnson&rsquo&semi;s stunning lack of knowledge about one of the biggest crises facing the world today may have put a serious damper on his insurgent campaign&period; The third party candidate must reach 15&percnt; in the polls in order to participate in upcoming presidential debates&comma; and this morning&&num;8217&semi;s blunder may have destroyed his chances to do so&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Libertarian&&num;8217&semi;s popularity has been hovering around 10&percnt; as he strives to attract voters who oppose both Trump and Clinton&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;So&comma; Aleppo is the center of a lot of people&rsquo&semi;s concerns across the planet about the terrible humanitarian crisis that is unfolding not only in Syria&comma; but especially in Aleppo&comma;&rdquo&semi; said host Joe Scarborough&comma; pressing the issue&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Do you really think that foreign policy is so insignificant that somebody who is running for president of the United States know what Aleppo is&comma; where Aleppo is&comma; and why it is so important&quest;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Libertarian insisted that he understands Aleppo &ldquo&semi;and I understand the crisis that is going on&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Johnson told Scarborough that he opposes US military involvement in &ldquo&semi;these humanitarian issues&comma;&rdquo&semi; because &ldquo&semi;we end up with a situation that in most cases is not better&comma; and in many cases ends up being worse&period; And we find ourselves always&comma; politicians are up against the wall&comma; and ask what to do about these things&comma; and this is why we end up committing military force in areas that&comma; like I say&comma; at the end of the day have an unintended consequence of making things worse&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Johnson says he is &ldquo&semi;incredibly frustrated&rdquo&semi; with himself regarding the interview&comma; and later suggested that he was clarifying Barnicle&rsquo&semi;s question when he asked&comma; &ldquo&semi;And what is Aleppo&quest;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> We might want to consider that Johnson isn&&num;8217&semi;t that familiar since the Libertarian solution is to pull all troops from everywhere and leave the rest of the world alone&period; He doesn&&num;8217&semi;t know because he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t care&period; &lpar;Frankly&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t either&&num;8230&semi;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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