Sarah Palin on National Security

by Michael Jones · 2010-02-08 08:37:00 UTC
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Sarah PalinSarah Palin made the rounds this weekend, from the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee to the tubes of Fox News, articulating a vision of U.S. national security less grounded in geopolitics than rooted in taunts of "We want a pitcher, not a glass of water."

Palin, who needed help from the palm of her hand in order to express her concerns with Obama's national security policy, taunted the President for being soft on national security issues. For Palin, in order to win the War on Terror, we need someone who will blow stuff up, not practice diplomacy.

"[Terrorists] know we're at war. And to win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern!" Palin shouted on Saturday night to hoots and hollers from the Tea Party crowd. Yes, instead of a professor of law, maybe we need someone who took seven years to finish an undergraduate degree. In journalism.

Palin then went on Fox News the next morning, to talk about how President Obama could significantly boost his approval ratings if he were to call for a preemptive war with Iran.

"Say [Obama] played, and I got this from [Pat] Buchanan, reading one of his columns the other day, say he played the war card," Palin said. "Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do ... if he did, things would dramatically change, if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies."

Didn't we learn last decade that preemptive war wasn't tough, but stupid?

Yowsa. Add to that getting foreign policy advice from a column written by Pat Buchanan -- you know, the guy who encouraged Nixon to use racism as a campaign tactic -- and you have to really wonder how this woman got within striking distance of the White House. Forget Canada. If Palin becomes President at any time in my lifetime, I'm moving to the moon Pandora.

Photo credit: auburnxc

Michael Jones
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