Kasich: John Bolton’s Rhetoric About Bombing Iran, N. Korea ‘Bothers Me’

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KASICH: "As you know I’m not a senator so I don’t have a vote. I think you have to look at the full record. I don’t know the guy, I don’t know much about him, but that kind of language bothers me, premature bombing and all that. Or preemptive bombing I should say. But the most important thing is that you have a national security team that can give you a diversity of opinions. We’re going to have to see how this team rolls out. The fact of the matter is when I run my government here in Ohio, I don’t want everybody to think the same way, and we learned that all the way back when John Kennedy was president. It’s a problem called group think. And so a president, a leader, a decisionmaker needs to hear a variety of opinions and then, guess what, ultimately decide what they want to do not by watching television, frankly, but they’ve got to decide what is the proper place for the United States of America to be. And the most important thing we need to do is engage the world, not fight with them over trade, not yell and scream at them, not act unilaterally, not withdraw from the Paris accord, you know, like we did, not, you know, starting with the sanctions against China, without having the rest of the world to go unilaterally on Iran. All that does is isolate us, and America cannot build a wall around itself. The rest of the world in the western part of the world depends on us and our values and being the strong leader. And I don’t want to see us retreat. And I hope John Bolton doesn’t preach retreat. I don’t know where he is. That’s why the hearings will be important."