ANDREA TANTAROS (HOST): So, General, when you hear them taking personal shots, does it bother you that they're not focused on these larger issues?
JACK KEANE: Well, yes. I want political candidates, but who am me? I'm one American citizen. I want them to focus on the issues, and the issues are so serious for the American people and the future of our security that, just on national security alone, we should be spending more than half the time at least on just differentiating how would you deal with this specific issue. And I think the overall issue -- I tell a candidate, if they want to talk to me, I say one of the first things you should come to grips with, what is the role that you believe America today should play in the world. What is its leadership role? Because I fundamentally believe that looking at the American president we have right now, he has a different view of what America's leadership role is in the world than most of his predecessors who were Democrats and Republicans since World War II.
TANTAROS: To that point, Katie, and I agree with the general, at these debates they'll get a question about what we do in Syria or a question about the Middle East, and it bothers me sometimes that I just hear, “arm the Kurds and the Peshmerga. Moving right along.” We don't have a robust debate about national security, and we're certainly not having it in South Carolina.
