On September 16th, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the next GOP debate will be moderated by Jake Tapper, with additional questions from Hugh Hewitt. I’m incredibly excited for this particular debate, and find Jake Tapper to be the picture of journalistic integrity. Do I always agree with him? No. Do I believe he’s fair 99% of the time? Yes. I’m also ready to hear a few hardball questions from Hugh Hewitt and his vast pool of foreign conflict knowledge. We had a bit of a preview of such questions on Thursday, and while Carly Fiorina used the opportunity to flash her foreign policy knowledge, Donald Trump – when asked the same questions – chose to complain and label them as “gotcha questions.”

Hugh repeated the sentiments of many Americans, that in today’s world we want the next Commander-in-Chief to have a firm grasp on foreign issues. He brought up names such as Hassan Nasrallah, Zawahiri, al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi, and he asked Donald Trump if he was familiar with such dangerous terrorists leaders. When asked directly about General Soleimani, Major General of the Quds, Donald confused the special forces unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards with a Sunni population, the Kurds.

HH: Are you familiar with General Soleimani?

DT: Yes, but go ahead, give me a little, go ahead, tell me.

HH: He runs the Quds Forces.

DT: Yes, okay, right.

HH: Do you expect his behavior…

DT: The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by …

HH: No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces.

DT: Yes, yes.

HH: …is the bad guys.

DT: Right.

HH: Do you expect his behavior to change as a result…

DT: Oh, I thought you said Kurds, Kurds.

HH: No, Quds.

DT: Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you said Kurds, because I think the Kurds have been poorly treated by us, Hugh. Go ahead.