Maybe she is strictly speaking on Israel? Maybe the end of the comment does not apply to the “declaring war on Iran” thing?
What is her foreign policy? These comments here and there… are “these” her policies?
From Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on 2–7–2010
WALLACE: I know that three years is an eternity in politics. But how hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012?
PALIN: It depends on a few things. Say he played, and I got this from Buchanan, reading one of his columns the other day. Say he played the war card. 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. But that changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, I do not think Obama would be re-elected. But three years from now things could change if on the national security threat -
WALLACE: You’re not suggesting that he would cynically play the war card.
(Watch the video at the 3:10 mark)
(Vid from http://www.youtube.com/user/therightscoop)
PALIN: I’m not suggesting that. I’m saying, 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. I think people would perhaps shift their thinking a little bit and decide, well, maybe he’s tougher than we think he is today. And there wouldn’t be as much passion to make sure that he doesn’t serve another four years –
WALLACE: But assuming he continues on the path that he going on and we don’t have that rally around the flag (ph) –
PALIN: Then he’s not going to win.
WALLACE: Not going to win?
PALIN: He’s not going to win.
Well… check out the rest of the interview here …Fox News Sunday Interview With Sarah Palin.
If Sarah Palin IS using Buchanan and Reagan as foreign policy guides and suggesting that we go to war with Iran, then… has she understood either?
Here is part of the Buchanan article…
Will Obama Play the War Card? by Patrick J. Buchanan 02/05/2010
Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.
Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war.
And should war come, that would be the end of GOP dreams of adding three-dozen seats in the House and half a dozen in the Senate.
Harry Reid is surely aware a U.S. clash with Iran, with him at the president’s side, could assure his re-election. Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
Senate bill 2799 would punish any company exporting gasoline to Iran. Though swimming in oil, Iran has a limited refining capacity and must import 40 percent of the gas to operate its cars and trucks and heat its homes.
And cutting off a country’s oil or gas is a proven path to war.
later in the article…
Cutting off gas to Iran would cause many deaths. And the families of the sick, the old, the weak, the women and the children who die are unlikely to feel gratitude toward those who killed them.
And despite the hysteria about Iran’s imminent testing of a bomb, the U.S. intelligence community still has not changed its finding that Tehran is not seeking a bomb. HUMAN EVENTS.
Did Palin get the right message from Buchanan?
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