Matt Walsh

watched a movie sequel or read an outline or paid any attention to the Super Bowl or seen one of those old-fashioned clock faces or met anyone who's named after his father or anything like that.

But even if, for some reason, you're inclined to give Ilhan Omar a pass for not understanding Roman numerals, there's an even bigger problem here, which is that she thinks it's plausible that there were 11 different world wars.

It's one of those moments, no matter how much you want to give somebody the benefit of the doubt, it's simply impossible to defend.

The words World War XI should not come out of your mouth under any circumstances.

Instinctively, you should know something's wrong at that point and hit the brakes before you say anything.

Now, people are giving her credit for catching her mistake a couple seconds later, but this is one of those errors that just should not happen to begin with.

The brain needs to intercept that particular thought immediately and neutralize it before anyone knows you had it.

Now, I'm the first to admit that someone who speaks publicly all the time might commit a flub here or there, a gaffe, might mispronounce a name on occasion, or in my case, mispronounce basically every name, every time.

These things are understandable, but the term World War XI is so jarring.

so wrong, so divorced from reality that it simply should not leave your lips.

And if it does, then that's evidence of much deeper intellectual deficiencies.

So in this case, we can assume one of two things.

The first possibility, which admittedly is very remote, is that maybe Ilhan Omar might have an extremely low IQ and she spent a non-zero amount of time after watching The Godfather Part II wondering where the other 10 Godfather movies are.

She knows she can't find them on Netflix, but she's pretty sure they're out there somewhere she's been searching.

Maybe she's done the same thing with Back to the Future Part 2 and Star Wars Episode 2 and Rocky 2.

That'd be worst case scenario by far, at least for Ilhan Omar.

The other possibility is that she's right and everyone else is wrong.

Maybe there really have been 11 world wars and we've just been undercounting this whole time.

And if that's the case, then effective immediately, I'm calling for one more World War.

I mean, I'm skeptical of foreign intervention, as everyone knows.