Robert Gates: ‘Not Seeing a Lot of Courage’ from 2016 Field

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under all 44 presidents plus two you don’t know about, told Morning Joe Tuesday morning that the 2016 field so far can suck a foreign policy tailpipe.

“Particularly on the Republican side, most of them have not been in jobs that required them to know anything or be involved in foreign policy,” Gates said. “A couple have been in the Senate two or three years. So my hope is that as the campaigns unfold and as time goes along, they will flush out their views and we’ll see something impressive.”

“On the Democratic side, I’m sorry that Secretary Clinton has not come out in favor of the trade agreements,” he added, referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership currently dividing the Democratic Party.

“And so I basically what I’ve said is that I’m not seeing a lot of courage out there and I’m seeing a lot of very simple solutions to shall very tough problems.”

Nobody show this guy Ben Carson.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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