(Not Quite) 101 Things Sarah Palin Should Know About the World
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Posted October 2008
Reza Aslan, Parag Khanna, Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Bacevich, and many more sharp minds offer unsolicited advice—some serious, some less so—for the woman vying to become a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Reza Aslan
Iran is not al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is not Hamas. Hamas is not Hezbollah. Hezbollah is not the Taliban ...
Author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (New York: Random House, 2005)
Parag Khanna
To understand the Russia that you can “see from your backyard” (as Tina Fey memorably put it), learn Chinese. The Russian Far East that is America’s neighbor might in the coming decades have a larger Chinese than Russian population as they populate and farm in the thawing Siberian countryside.
Senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program and director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation, and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (New York: Random House, 2008)
William Easterly
Moscow is on the opposite side of Russia, 4,365 miles away from Anchorage, Alaska. Sarah Palin would have stronger foreign-policy credentials if she were the governor of Ryazan province.
In unbelievably sharp contrast to Alaska, most oil-rich states around the world are very corrupt and often commit other ethics violations.
Professor of economics at New York University and author of The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: Penguin Press, 2006)
Col. Andrew J. Bacevich (Ret.)
In her debate with Sen. Joe Biden, Governor Palin described her “worldview” this way: “America is a nation of exceptionalism. And we are to be that shining city on a hill. ... {W}e represent a perfect ideal.” She needs to know that this self-image is not peculiar to Americans. The people of France and Russia, China and Iran, and any number of other nations are no less persuaded that their country and their values stand out as distinctive and special.
Professor of international relations at Boston University and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008)
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