Palin's Foreign Policy
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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/what-president-palins-foreign-policy-would-look-like.html
"What President Palin's Foreign Policy Would Look Like"
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In a phrase: AIPAC's foreign policy, with Cheney's torture regime in place, to
back it up. She has already stated that she wants more Israeli settlements and
more Israelis in the West Bank, and is now hinting that she would also like a
full-scale war with Iran:
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When she was first asked about foreign policy - before she was Kristolized by
Randy Scheuneman - she said she wanted an exit plan for Iraq and had only heard
about the "surge" "on the news." Now she is a paid-up neocon fanatic.
Notice that in her view, Obama is not actually supporting Israel at the moment.
And yet Israel pre-emptively tried to kill Obama's attempt to reach out to the
Muslim world by the brutal, polarizing Gaza campaign, has adamantly refused to
freeze all settlements on the West Bank, and has done its usual brilliant job of
lobbying the US Congress to prevent any leverage over the country. In Jerusalem,
recently, two US senators, John McCain and Joe Lieberman, openly told the
Israelis that they had the power to prevent Obama from conducting foreign policy
with respect to Israel, if it conflicted with the agenda of the Israeli
government. Obama's clearest failure, in fact, in his first year is in trying to
budge Israel from its suicidal path.
Notice also that the only "tough" position for Palin is war and the threat of
war. And remember this statement from earlier this year:
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I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon,
because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish
people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I
don�t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the
Jewish settlements cannot expand.
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The American president has no right to pressure Israel to advance America's
interests. No right! No wonder Kristol is so in love.
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