I Can't Deal with Sarah Palin's Ignorance

[Joanne98]

by: Brandon Friedman
Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 16:21:05 PM EDT

I've pretty much been stunned into silence the last couple of days with regard to Sarah Palin. I've had several people ask me to weigh in from a military perspective on her confounding lack of foreign policy knowledge, but thus far, I've literally been at a loss for words.
There's just too much material.

I wanted to blast her saber rattling over Russia--as Ilan Goldenberg did so eloquently. But when I started writing, I found that the only way to really combat such an insane suggestion would be to break out dry, straightforward facts and figures on why such talk could prove disastrous. Saying that Sarah Palin could potentially start a nuclear just seemed too clichéd.

I wanted to skewer her for equating 9/11 with the Iraq War--as she did yesterday while speaking to troops in Alaska. But I figured that wouldn't resonate, because--after six years--we're all so desensitized to hearing the same accusations about the Bush administration. Plus, as of last year, 41 percent of Americans believed it anyway.

I was amazed that a Vice Presidential candidate like Palin could have no idea what the Bush Doctrine was--even though it's why we went to Iraq in the first place. But I mentally deflated when I thought about the fact that most Americans probably don't know what it is, either. To Joe or Jane America, her answer probably sounded fine.

So I'm left sputtering--like much of America, horrified by the prospect that this national nightmare of ignorance could continue for another four years unabated.

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1883

[glowing]

1. She sounded like a Beauty contestent in a Pagent answering questions

about world affairs.. She would have been better to stick to: Peace and harmony for all the planet... She was NOT good in that interview. The problem is that most of America doesn't understand what is or is not going on.. They still think Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and that Sadam had WMD.