Gary Johnson in Politico.com

On Foreign Policy: Knowing all the world facts just means we use military more

The former New Mexico governor has been widely panned for a pair of foreign policy gaffes that have weighed down his long-shot candidacy. First, Johnson responded to a question about the ongoing civil war in Syria by asking his questioner, "What is Aleppo?" His inability to recognize Syria's largest city, and the epicenter of its humanitarian crisis, was compounded last week when Johnson was to "name one foreign leader that you respect and look up to." Johnson could not name one and admitted that he was having another "Aleppo moment."

Johnson, like most Libertarians, supports non-interventionist foreign and military policies.

On Foreign Policy: Non-interventionist foreign policies: no regime changes

"We put our military in this horrible situation where we go in and support regime change. They get involved in civil wars where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are in a cross fire. We're literally shooting at ourselves because we support both sides of conflicts, Syria as an example," he said. "We wonder why our men in service and women suffer from PTSD in the first place. It's because we elect people who can dot the i's and cross the t's on these names and geographic locations as opposed to the underlying philosophy which is let's stop getting involved in these regime changes. "