So I see Palin and Clinton are going to bravely oppose Ahmedinejad next week.
I do so love these shallow political events.
Of course, Elie Wiesel will be attending too!
Did you know he was a Nobel Prize winner?
So someone that knows nothing about Iran, a politician from New York, and Elie Wiesel are going to waste time attacking an idiot.
Time well...spent.
Even my Israeli cab driver, a non-American through and through, knew more about the Bush Doctrine than Sarah Palin. And that is cause for serious concern.
The cabbie knew, for example, that the doctrine provided for anticipatory self-defense, and pre-emptive strikes to forestall hostile acts even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack.
"This would never have happened in Israel, ever" remarked a journalist friend, referring to the choice of Governor Palin, whose credentials in the realms of foreign policy, statecraft and the military are limited in the extreme.
Haaretz
This Israeli can't imagine a nation voting for someone being so out of the loop. Israelis may disagree on issues. But on serious issues they at least know them. And can argue them.
In America, we argue crap. Palin understands Israel? How has the international attack on Hamas benefited Israel? You think she can answer that? Is Hizballah stronger or weaker than 2006? These basic questions don't even get asked.
Instead we get Clinton/Palin/Weisel going to some media lovefest to attack someone that is already being attacked economically and politically by all the power bases in Iran.
But hey. It's America. We hate politics. We love a good soap opera.