"Do you read this stuff?" Hugh Hewitt questions Ben Carson's foreign policy chops

“What do you consider to be [Islam’s] tap root? What is the origin of their rage in your view?” Hewitt asked the potential 2016 candidate

“Well, first of all, you have to recognize they go back thousands and thousands of years. Really, back to the battle between Jacob and Esau,” Carson said. “It has been a land issue for a very long period of time. Possession is very important to them, and one of the things that we are doing, I think, incorrectly right now, is not recognizing that they are expanding their territory. Not only the land they’ve taken in Iraq, but what they’ve taken in Syria and creating an Islamic State.”

“We can bomb it all we want, but unless we can actually take the land back, we are really not doing them any damage,” Carson added.

“Uh, but Dr. Carson, Mohammad lives in 632 A.D., so it’s a 1300-1400 year old religion. How do you go back to Jacob and Esau, which are B.C.?” Hewitt asked incredulously.