Who Is the Man Behind Ben Carson’s Foreign Policy?
Foreign Policy’s James Bamford writes on the influence of Ben Carson’s foreign policy advisers on both his current campaign and future policy. “Chief among them is Robert F. Dees, a retired Army officer who has indulged in anit-Muslim bigotry and advocated for a national security strategy centered on Christian evangelism,” Bamford writes. Carson’s most extreme statements on foreign policy are not just “ill-informed gaffes,” Bamford says. “They are a reflection of the troubling worldview of the people he has turned to for advice.”