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Posted on 03/19/2011 8:55:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The New York Sun carries a piece sure to stir up the Palin haters and embolden the Palin lovers:
The call by the Arab League for Western military intervention in an Arab state -- in this case asking that a UN "no-fly zone" be imposed over Libya - is not only without precedent but it puts in formal terms what Governor Palin stated three weeks ago should have been America's response to the political and humanitarian crisis now unfolding there.
The former GOP vice presidential candidate was being interviewed on February 23rd on national television by Sean Hannity on a range of issues. On the Libya crisis, she proposed a no-fly-zone to protect the armed and un-armed opposition to the Qaddafi regime. Mrs. Palin's formulation had been blogged about for nearly a week when it was echoed by the man who, before the Iraq war, had led the Iraq democratic movement in exile, Ahmed Chalabi.
A long-time foe of Saddam Hussein who has emerged as a leading figure in Iraq's democratically elected legislature. Mr Chalabi recounted in the Wall Street Journal how President George H. W. Bush's 1991 call for a popular uprising against Saddam had been heeded by the Iraqi people, only to have Saddam then murder some 30,000 of them from helicopter gunships while the Western world stood by.
Not again, Mr. Chalabi pleaded in his essay, and explicitly demanded a Libyan no-fly-zone. But it now it seems Qaddafi will be allowed to repeat a Saddam-style repression, even as President Obama, and the rest of what he likes to call the international community, is "watching carefully."
Mrs. Palin also continues to link America's energy policy -- a realm in which she has experience -- and U.S. foreign and anti-terrorism policies. She recognizes that the ongoing transfer of billions of U.S. petro-dollars to unstable or even hostile Mideast regimes has, since the formation in 1973 of the Organization of Petoleum Exporting Countries, been an drain on U.S. financial resources.
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The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin -- certainly no knee-jerk advocate for Sarah Palin -- wrote just a few weeks ago that Palin turns out to [also] have been correct in the prediction she made to Barbara Walters, in a much-noted November 2009 interview. Palin stated she was opposed to Obama's opposition to Israel's settlement policies because "[m]ore and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead." Now, as Rubin noted, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics confirms that the pace of immigration to Israel rose 14% to 16,633 from the level in 2009, most coming from Russia or America.
Let's summarize this quickly.
Barack Hussein Obama is proving to not be the person the media portrayed him to be since his emergence on the political scene.
And Sarah Palin is proving to not be the person the media portrayed her to be since her emergence on the political scene.
What's the lesson here folks?
And once again we see that Sarah Palin was right, and she said it sooner and better than anyone else has. Yet she is “unpopular” and “ineluctable” and the immaculated Barack Hussein Obama is going to phone one in from Rio.
This is the difference between one who speaks from common-sense conservative core principles and an inexperienced empty suit who is playing a role.
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This is all well and good, but, what I really want to know is how her brackets are doing.
Her speech, in India and also her question session afterwards were fascinating. She knows what she believes and can articulate it fearlessly. Go Sarah!
Link, please!
In other words, there ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between the pro-world policing duo, Sarah Obama and Barack Palin. Both will share responsibilty for the coming Libyan quagmire.
I like Palin but “Palin Doctrine”? Thats a bit of hyperbole I think.
Say no more. We've heard it about 10,000 times. It doesn't get any more interesting with mindless repetition. The next ten years will record the historic gravitas of "The Palin Doctrine." After that, we'll have a chance to weigh its impact on the very life we live here in America.
Until then, it's just another "...I like Palin, but..."
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