I agree with you. I believe that foreign policy experience, or the lack thereof, is being overanalyzed. It does not matter how many foreign leaders you have met. When it comes time to make an important foreign policy decision, will the US leader fret about what foreign leaders think, or will the US leader make the correct decision - what is right or wrong, what is best for the US?
Jesse Jackson has probably met more foreign leaders than Palin and Obama combined, but so what? So has Bono. Are they qualified to be President?