“People who live in the Syrian city of Aleppo confirmed Thursday that they haven’t heard of a U.S. politician named Gary Johnson, an outlier candidate for the U.S. presidency who has caused a furor by acknowledging that he doesn’t know anything about the war-ravaged city.
“Many Americans hadn’t even heard of Johnson until he made headlines Thursday by asking in an interview, “What is Aleppo?” thereby establishing that he was unaware of the existence of the city at the heart of the Syrian war.
“But news of the uproar failed to reach the people of Aleppo, who spend more time dodging airstrikes and chemical weapons attacks than following news about politics in the United States.”
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