Martha Raddatz asked several Republican Primary candidates including Kasich the same question on North Korea (from Feb. 6, 2016).
Here is the question and answer (with minor formatting changes mine) . . .
RADDATZ: Well, let me ask you this, if you were Commander in Chief tonight would you have order (sic) the U.S. military to destroy that missile preemptively on the launchpad to prevent North Korea from becoming an even graver threat?
. . . . RADDATZ: . . . I will say that missile has been sitting there for quite some time, and they have had eyes on it.
. . . . RADDATZ: . . . I’m talking about a preemptive strike on the launch pad.
Raddatz continues . . . .
Governor Kasich, how would you respond to tonight’s launch?
KASICH: Well, we’ve got to to step up the pressure.
And by the way, I’ve gotta say, after being here, every one of my 100 town hall meetings in New Hampshire were a lot more fun than what I saw here today, were so much more positive.
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KASICH: Look, in terms of North Korea, Martha, we have to make sure that we intercept both the ships and their aircraft, because what they’re trying to do is to proliferate this very dangerous material, along with the – with the technology, the instruments that can be used for mass destruction.
Aside from the fact that Raddatz was asking about the launchpad, intercepting ships and aircraft of course can be considered an act of war.
Now Kasich goes into NON-State “actors” instead of addressing the North Korean state (presumably ISIS but who knows for sure WHAT “non-state actors” Kasich means) . . . .
KASICH: That’s what I worry about the most, frankly, is non-state actors, people who don’t have a uniform, people don’t have a country, who can spread this, who are not subject to the – to the mutual assured defense. In other words, you strike us, we strike you.
Now Kasich is going to talk about his feelings and his family and finish it off by saying we need to be “tough”.
KASICH: Some of these radicals, they don’t care about that. That’s what I worry about, for my children, and for their children, going forward. So, we have to be very tough.
Now Kasich tries to address the China issue (because North Korea is a close ally of China’s if we attack North Korea in this case, China may treat it as an attack on itself! So strategically we would need to be very cautious about pre-emptive strikes in this reason. American interests would have to be sky high to risk war with the Chinese, and face a nuclear attack from North Korea
(Again a big question mark to President Bill Clinton and Robert Gallucci for aiding and abetting the proverbial green light to North Korean nuclear capability –
here. Much the same thing that may NOW be going on with President Obama and Iran and their nuclear capability in the Mideast incidentally)
Kasich goes on . . . .
KASICH: And we should tell the Chinese, look, if you’re not going to do this ballistic missile defense to the Koreans, ballistic missile defense to Japan – and by the way, we should impose the same kind of sanctions on North Korea that we imposed on Iran, because they’re able to shift money. They’re able to send money and receive money.
(BELL RINGS)
KASICH: We’ve gotta to be very tough on this.
Then Kasich says something absolutely bizarre. Kasich says “we could have let the Japanese know that if you want to take action on that”.
I’m not sure what Kasich means but it sounds like he wants the Japanese making the ultimate decision here on an issue that could very much directly affect the USA!
KASICH: And frankly, I think we could have – I think we could have let the Japanese know that if you want to take action on that – on that missile that’s rising, you want to take action – you will have our support, if that’s what you think is the best thing to do.
Then Kasich finishes with something nobody is going to disagree with. Kasich says “we can’t be weak”.
But nobody is asking that the USA “be weak”. Raddatz just wanted to know if you would launch a preemptive strike on the missile launchpad.
Here’s how Kasich finishes . . .
KASICH: We cannot continue to be weak in the face of the North Koreans, or, frankly, in the entire rest of the world.
Martha, this is – this is the – relates…
RADDATZ: Thank you, Governor Kasich. Thank you – thank you…
Kasich is a guy with very puny numbers, no mathematical chance of winning the nomination outright, admits reluctantly to favoring ABORTION exceptions, and who is
being heavily funded by social agitator George Soros and his minions (see
here if interested).
You look at all of this, and you’ve gotta ask yourself WHY is Kasich even in the Presidential race??
