While failed Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said his war against public employee unions prepared him for the fight against ISIS, Carly Fiorina says her degree in medieval history and philosophy has prepared her.
“Finally my degree in medieval history and philosophy has come in handy,” Fiorina said Sunday night, “because what ISIS wants to do is drive us back to the Middle Ages, literally.”
Fiorina was responding to a question from a member of the military at a town hall in Windham, New Hampshire, who wanted to know how she could assure him that she would be serious in taking on the Islamic extremist group.
No, that wasn't a joke.
She really meant it.
“Every single one of the techniques that ISIS is using, the crucifixion, the beheadings, the burning alive, those were commonly used techniques in the Middle Ages,” Fiorina told reporters during a media availability, “so we can’t avert our eyes and pretend it’s an exaggeration that ISIS wants to take its territory back to the Middle Ages but that is in truth what they want to do and are attempting to do.”
I can't imagine telling a member of the military that my bachelor's degree in medieval history prepared me for war with ISIS. She obtained her degree at Stanford University, not a military academy.
I'd like to thank Fiorina for giving me an excuse to reference failed Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker. Emphasis on failed.