Joan Walsh- What Is The Matter With Ben Carson?

Is he mad?
The Patriots were Americans who'd gotten richer than Croesus, from slavery. They didn't have great
uniforms, or a national army because the King wouldn't let it happen. But they had the great plantation owner George Washington, and his cohorts,who were educated enough in fighting wars and in the lay of the lands of the American colonies to organize battles.
British farm products were taking a big hit by competing with those in the colonies which were planted and cared for and harvested without labor costs. British soldiers were brave enough to come
miles and miles across the Atlantic to ensure the motherland, who fought what Americans call The French and Indian War (Europeans call it The Seven Years' War.) with and for these colonists, could collect taxes on the resources they protected for so long.

The American colonists didn't want to pay so many taxes that they couldn't grow richer than Britain.
They saw a chance to be powerful and they took it. That can be considered admirable, especially when young rhetoricians like Tom Payne talk it up excitingly.
But all parties in that war were risking life and limb for their loyalties. The Reformation was over.
What would have been 'politically correct' about building the background for each side of the war. Britain is our ally now.

Why is the politically correct not a friend to humanity for the right wing?
Carson can learn.
He is a skilled soft tissue mechanic.
But he cannot seem to synthesize or evaluate complicated histories. Scientists who study thought
structure and function should be eager to study his brain.

Why would Americans who fight and die in the Far and Mid-East not be considered willing to fight and die? How does that make sense?
Why would Americans who were beheaded simply because their devotion to us was intense enough for them to want us to know exactly what we are up against in this world, and in some cases to serve
their own humanitarian impulses at risk of their lives.

Why is an ISIL sacrifice superior to ours? Should we begin going into the wilderness to behead the bravest and kindness of our opponents?
I didn't think the GOP could get a worse minority candidate than Herman Cain.
I'm appalled now.
I give them credit, though. They aren't putting forth Charles Barkly or Bill Cosby...yet.