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Libya

Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya

Juan Cole 11/15/2011

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Herman Cain more or less admits that he has no idea what he would have done about the Libyan Revolution and no idea whether his criticisms of Obama on the conduct of the Libya War are well grounded or not.

Cain keeps saying he’d have others do an assessment for him, but our experience with W. made us suspicious of a candidate who promises he’ll surround himself with knowledgeable people.

It turns out that if you are ignorant on a wide range of important subjects, you can’t actually tell when you’re being given bad advice or who the better experts are.

There is no substitution for an individual’s knowledge and discernment.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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