Carson stays mum on naming potential allies

Republican White House hopeful Ben Carson in a Monday night interview again dismissed naming specific countries or world leaders that would participate in a coalition to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

{mosads}Fox News host Sean Hannity offered Carson another chance to respond to critics and provide more detail about which foreign countries would collaborate, but the presidential candidate maintained that shouldn’t be the main focus.

“I can name all the countries down there consecutively and where they are. That’s not the point,” Carson said.

“The point is we need to have a plan that attracts them and let’s them know that we will be with them and we’re not going to abandon them, you know, like we’ve abandoned Israel, like we’ve abandoned Ukraine, liked we’ve abandoned people around the world,” Carson continued.

“That doesn’t mean anything. You know people need to ask relevant questions,” he added.

Carson also knocked the three Democratic candidates for avoiding the term “radical Islam” during the second primary debate on Saturday night.

“I find it interesting that they’re willing to use the term ISIS because the ‘I’ in ISIS stand for Islamic, so they’re not really being very consistent,” the retired neurosurgeon said about his Democratic rivals.

Carson went on to blast how politicians have been responding to the terrorist group.

“At some point we have to use something called common sense and I think that’s one of the things that the American people are so frustrated by,” he said. “We have these politicians and they seemed to have completely lost contact with rational thought process.”