Is it feasible? What would it look like?
Palin is the only one hitting Obama on so many issues.
Not a good sign. It looks like Billy Kristol, Sarah’s debate coach, has captured her for the cause of neoconservatism. It looks like a President Palin will continue Obama’s war.
There is a serious problem in the region. It is one the US can’t solve, but might be able to mitigate before getting out of there. But the emphasis has to be on a type of stability that will maintain itself after we are gone.
The numbers speak for themselves. NATO commitment, mostly US: about 100,000 personnel. Population of Afghanistan, 30 million. Population of Pakistan, 110 million people.
This means only one thing will work. That we have to put the majority who don’t want to fight us in control, and they *must* stamp out the minority that does want to fight us—and will leave their country to do so.
In effect, once we decide to leave, for a very long time, we cannot permit *anyone* from Afghanistan or Pakistan to come to the US, or even go to Europe, except leaders and important professionals, until we have some security that they are no longer exporting terrorists.
This will especially impact England, because it has a very large Pakistani community, who want to travel back and forth between the two countries. But there is no way this can continue until Pakistan has self-control. There must be a severance between those nations.
Either get OBL this year, or get the heck outta there.
Nuggets of Truth In Death Panel Rhetoric (Palin Derangement Syndrome yet he admits she's right!)
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
I love Sarah, but the healdine is misleading. Sarah Palin didn’t write this letter - it was written by the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Signitories include:
The letters signers so far are: Steve Biegun, Max Boot, Ellen Bork, Paul Bremer, Christian Brose, Debra Burlingame, Eliot A. Cohen, Ryan C. Crocker, Thomas Donnelly, Eric Edelman, William S. Edgerly, Jamie M. Fly, David Frum, Abe Greenwald, John Hannah, Pete Hegseth, Margaret Hoover, Thomas Joscelyn, Frederick W. Kagan, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Tod Lindberg, Herbert London, Clifford May, Robert C. McFarlane, Joshua Muravchik, Andrew Natsios, Sarah Palin, Keith Pavlischek, Beverly Perlson, Danielle Pletka, John Podhoretz, Stephen Rademaker, Mitchell B. Reiss, Karl Rove, Jennifer Rubin, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, Dan Senor, Ashley Tellis, Marc Thiessen, Daniel Twining, Peter Wehner, Kenneth Weinstein, and Christian Whiton.
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/node/11817
Question: did Sarah Palin actually write the letter in question, or is she merely one of many people who signed it?