The Obama-Kander national security plan was on full display this week with Obama’s Attorney General declaring, “Our most effective response to terror and hatred is compassion, unity and love.”
The comment is emblematic of an administration that clearly has no plan to fight ISIS and stop terrorist attacks on American soil. And it sounds a lot like Jason Kander’s plan to fight terrorism by…calling in the Peace Corps. Yes, the Peace Corps.
*As a progressive, my beef with President Bush isn’t that he’s fighting a war, it’s that he’s doing it wrong. I want to win every bit as badly as he does, if not more, but I believe that means the symbol of America can’t just be a soldier with an M-16. It must also be a peace corp volunteer armed with the knowledge to improve crop yields, an American diplomat holding court on the rule of law, and a doctor curing the sick in a village clinic… Young men with good jobs, food on the table, and subsequent honor in their homes do not become terrorists, let alone suicide bombers.*
And as a state legislator, Kander stood on the side of the Obama-Clinton plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and even refused to object to bringing terrorists to American soil:
“Kander was one of 36 state House members who opposed a resolution urging Congress to keep prisoners from Guantanamo out of Missouri…The 2009 resolution, which easily passed the Legislature, urged Congress to ‘reject any act of asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or medical care in regard to suspected terrorists from any United States operated foreign prison present within the State of Missouri.’” (Kevin McDermott and Chuck Raasch, “Missouri Senate Candidate Kander Breaks With Obama Over Guantanamo Bay Closure,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/23/16)
When it comes to keeping the country safe, Jason Kander is clearly just another rubber stamp for the failed Obama-Clinton national security strategy.