Jason Kander: ‘I’m Deeply Concerned’ About How Much Trump’s Deferring to the Generals

RUSH EXCERPT:
KANDER: "I’m deeply concerned about it. Because if you think back to when he was asked whether or not he approved the dropping of the MOAB in Afghanistan, his answer was something along the lines of, it started with “uh” and then it went from “uh” to “everybody knew exactly what was going on” which is of course the opposite of true.  I mean, he was giving the answer because he didn’t want people to know exactly whether he approved it or not and what bothers me about that is that there are really only two acceptable answers to that question. The first was, I am the commander in chief, it was an important decision to make a change like that to step up to that level of using that weapon, and so I made the decision. And the second was, here’s why that decision was made by a tactical commander on the ground and then defend it. But he doesn’t do either of those things. And I believe that the reason is is because he wants to take credit for good things when they happen and blame generals when bad things happen. And that’s no way to lead a military, certainly the most powerful military in the world."