Now that the Iowa caucuses have confirmed his position as a top tier candidate for the Republican nomination, Mike Huckabee's frighteningly slim knowledge of foreign policy actually matters. If they know anything about his views at all, most Americans have probably heard about his statement on the Don Imus radio show that "I may not know anyting about foreign policy, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night." It was a decent joke, and a good way to deflect attention from the real issue.

But the time for joking about Huckabee's lack of foreign policy expertise has passed. What does he actually think about Iraq, Pakistan, Iran and other hot button foreign policy issues? The answers are more complicated than you might expect.

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