He
seems to be rather unfamiliar with the ideological distinctions.
Ben Smith says it's further evidence that he's given little thought to the matter, which is an increasingly important talking point in the race:
He said this of a decade-old war, and his open ignorance of less central matters of foreign policy, like the course of troublesome U.S. ally Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, seems almost a point of pride. He's said he likes the views of George Will and Charles Krauthammer, who disagree sharply on pretty much everything past the water's edge. (This is more or less as illuminating as saying you like to read Keynes and Hayek.) All the available evidence suggests that Cain "hasn't the faintest clue," Dan Drezner wrote yesterday, and it's hard to disagree.
It certainly isn't.