Following a rally in Tennessee this afternoon, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain criticized what he called some “dumb” foreign policy moves that President Obama has made in recent months.

“I think that the way he handled the surge [in Afghanistan] was not the right way to do it,” Cain said during a phone interview with THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “First of all, it took him too long to give the order to do the surge in Afghanistan. When they finally did the surge, and the commanders on the ground were able to start making some progress with these additional resources, then he goes back about a year later and desurged the surge. First of all, I would have asked the commanders on the ground, ‘When do you think we need to do this?’ Because if he did, he didn’t listen because both Admiral Mullen and General Petraeus were surprised when he went public with his decision. That says that he didn’t listen to his commanders.”