Again, I don't much care about the theoretical sex scandal concerning Herman Cain. It's his total cluelessness on foreign policy that bothers me.

As I noted in a prior post, Cain seems blissfully unaware that there is a such a thing as a "neo" conservative even as he parrots the neocon line - and even though he has stood a few feet away as Ron Pail has dismantled that heresy for the leftist-inspired fraud it is.

Note the discussion of policy toward Iran at the 13-minute mark. First Herman Cain starts talking about doubling the number of ships with ballistic missile defense. He mentions the Aegis defense system - which was largely designed in Jersey, by the way.

Then O'Reilly asks whether he'd put these ships off Iran.

We then sit through a discussion during which neither of the two shows the slightest knowledge that the Persian Gulf is patrolled regularly by the Fifth Fleet. If the Iranians feel like firing a missile at a U.S. ship, they plenty of opportunities already, all of which would presumably be defended by the Aegis systems already in use on the ships in question.

Of course, the Iranians would then would be starting a war they could not possibly win, given our massive retaliatory capacity. It's called "deterrence" and neither of these two seems aware of it.

And then there is Cain's insistence that these ships are needed for ballistic missile defense off Iran. Again neither he nor O'Reilly seems aware that any Iranian attacks on shipping would involve a cruise missile such as the Chinese Silkworm and not a ballistic missile.

Doesn't either of them recall the 1987 attack by an Iraqi aircraft on the U.S.S. Stark with Exocet cruise missiles? It was in the news. So was the use of Exocets in the Falklands War.

As for ballistic missiles, they are primarily employed for land-to-land attacks at high altitude. The Aegis can defend against both types, but if Cain had a plan to install protection against ballistic missiles from Iran, then the ships should be in the Mediterranean off Israel, not in the Persian Gulf off Iran.

I actually like Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan, but he sounds like a complete dunce on foreign policy. What are the chances that if elected president he would be able to resist the entreaties of the neocons to get us bogged down even further in the Mideast?

After you finish with that, clear your mind by watching the passage below during which Ron Paul explains how the world works to the clueless O'Reilly. It's best at the 5-minute mark when Ron Paul explains the concept of a letter of marque and reprisal to O'Reilly, who promptly drops the subject.