Making NATO a policing organization would play a role in transmitting what John Kasich has described as Judeo-Christian values, the Republican presidential candidate says.
“With Europe, I said that NATO needed to be transformed into a policing and intelligence organization,” Kasich, the governor of Ohio, says in an extensive interview with the New York Daily News editorial board posted Tuesday.
Kasich is referring – unprompted by his interviewers – to controversy he stirred last year when he proposed a US Department of Judeo-Christian values that would promote Western ideas in the same way that US State Department bodies have in the past promoted US culture and values.
“I mean, this is a battle between the civilized world and barbarians at the gate,” he tells the Daily News, which is publishing a series of interviews with presidential candidates ahead of next week’s primaries in New York state. “I mentioned something … You guys probably mocked me for it. You guys said, ‘Well, he wants to create, what do you call it, a ‘Jesus bureau’ or whatever. I said, our Judeo-Christian values are ones of respect for women, equality for women, right to protest, civilization, all this other stuff, and that we need to engage the whole world in this.”
— JTA
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich speaks at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit April 18, 2015 in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images via JTA)
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