After Perry gaffe,Cain stumbles on question

At the interview in Milwaukee,after he was asked his thoughts on Obamas handling of Libya,Cain leaned back and appeared to search for an answer: O.K.,Libya, he said.

President Obama supported the uprising,correct? he asked. President Obama called for the removal of Gaddafi just want to make sure were talking about the same thing before I say Yes,I agree, or No,I didnt agree.

Cain said he disagreed with the presidents approach for the following reasons then changed course.

Nope,thats a different one, he said. Ive got to go back and see. He added: Ive got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

Some analysts have grown sharply critical of Cains foreign policy pronouncements in debates and interviews,saying he shows a basic lack of understanding of critical regions of the world. His comments about Libya came after a string of other provocative remarks about foreign policy and related issues. Those include a statement published Monday in which Cain suggested that most American Muslims are extremists; a contradictory answer about waterboarding during a Republican presidential primary debate on Saturday; and his statement that if al-Qaeda demanded,he would consider authorising the release of every detainee at Guantánamo Bay in return for the release of one US soldier.RICHARD A OPPEL JR.