Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, whose grasp of foreign policy issues has been called into question on the campaign trail, paid a surprise visit Saturday to camps in Jordan housing Syrian refugees. The retired neurosurgeon said in a statement released by his campaign that he “saw pain on the faces of mothers and children.” He thanked Jordan for “doing an amazing" job and called on the United States and other nations to provide additional help to the refugees, after his visits to the Azraq and Zaatari camps in Jordan’s northern desert. That help, however,...
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