Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser on Sunday, Sarah Palin “fumbled” while praising U.S. soldiers in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, referring to Afghanistan as a “neighboring country”:

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“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.


Afghanistan borders neither the United States nor Iraq. Asian geography appears equally difficult for Sen. John McCain, who has discussed an imaginary Iraq-Pakistan border.