--- title: Ben Carson on 'Hypocrisy' of His Doubters on Foreign Policy description: "Don't act like I haven't said these things and that I don't have the knowledge." canonical: https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-23T14:29:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:50:43.465Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ben Carson Slams 'Hypocrisy' of His Foreign Policy Critics og:description: "Don't act like I haven't said these things and that I don't have the knowledge" og:url: https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54914438c4ed8713/698872652dce0185079e69f7/ben-carson9.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Dr. Ben Carson at a news conference in Henderson, Nev. on Nov. 16, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben Carson Slams 'Hypocrisy' of His Foreign Policy Critics twitter:description: "Don't act like I haven't said these things and that I don't have the knowledge" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54914438c4ed8713/698872652dce0185079e69f7/ben-carson9.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ben Carson Slams 'Hypocrisy' of His Foreign Policy Critics by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 23, 2015 2:29 PM UTC  Dr. Ben Carson at a news conference in Henderson, Nev. on Nov. 16, 2015. Dr. Ben Carson at a news conference in Henderson, Nev. on Nov. 16, 2015.John Locher—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 23, 2015 2:29 PM UTC DAVENPORT– Dropping in the polls amid questions over the extent of his foreign policy knowledge, Ben Carson told an Iowa crowd on Sunday night that “nobody ever pays any attention” to his foreign policy positions – but President Obama and others use “almost the exact words” that he uses in talking about the fight against ISIS. “I’ve said for multiple months, is that if we take the fight to \[ISIS\] over there, we’re much less likely to have to fight them over here,” Carson said in Wilton, Iowa. He expressed annoyance over the recent criticisms directed at him. “I find it… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/carson-slams-hypocrisy-his-doubters-foreign-policy-n468096?cid=par-time%5F20151123) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/"},"headline":"Ben Carson Slams 'Hypocrisy' of His Foreign Policy Critics","datePublished":"2015-11-23T14:29:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:50:43.465Z","description":"\"Don't act like I haven't said these things and that I don't have the knowledge\"","url":"https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/","keywords":["Dr. Benjamin S. Carson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54914438c4ed8713/698872652dce0185079e69f7/ben-carson9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54914438c4ed8713/698872652dce0185079e69f7/ben-carson9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dr. Ben Carson at a news conference in Henderson, Nev. on Nov. 16, 2015.","caption":"Dr. Ben Carson at a news conference in Henderson, Nev. on Nov. 16, 2015.","creditText":"John Locher—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4124141/ben-carson-isis-foreign-policy/","name":"Ben Carson Slams 'Hypocrisy' of His Foreign Policy Critics"}}]}] ```