Those close to him concede his foreign policy fluency isn't yet where it needs to be. And they hope missions like this will help change that. "I'd say he's 75 percent of the way there," Armstrong Williams, Carson's longtime business manager and closest confidant, said last week of the candidate's grasp of foreign policy. "The world is a complex place, and he wants to get it right. "Carson is scheduled to return to the United States late Saturday.
"The United States must do more," he said. "In the coming days I will offer what I believe are real solutions to the problems created in part by the Obama-Clinton administrations failed policies." The Associated Press contributed to this report.