[Captain Kirk]

She may be into projecting American power and preserving American interests abroad more than some (or many) isolationists would like, but it’s not at all that she’s a Global Do-Gooder. At least not the way I read her. Palin's own position is very much that of a global do-gooder. She doesn't want to do it through the UN but not only because she doesn't think the UN is serious about the Wilsonian goal of spreading demcoracy. Interestingly, that is precisely the position of the UN. That's why Kristol likes her so much. Let me quote from the horse's mouth:

Palin said during the campaign that the U.S. “make every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, tolerance, respect for equality.” In a September 2008 interview with the CBS Evening News, Palin said the promotion of democracy is the underlying goal in U.S. counterterrorism efforts. “It's not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals [around] the world,”

Again, Billy Kristol is no fool. He knows that Sarah supports his pro-democracy agenda.

[skintight buffoonery]

Appreciate the research, cap’n.

I can’t imagine how sane i.e. conservative person could believe in this “spreading democracy” nonsense. Liberal democracy of the sort we see in the U.S. and Western Europe is based on centuries and centuries of conflict, cultural development and sheer happenstance. It’s a system that can only really work with European or culturally Europeanized peoples, and not even with all of them.