Beyond Naive

Sarah Palin talks about foreign policy with Katie Couric.



First of all, the idea of questioning someone's judgment on foreign policy, when you have no experience in the area, reeks of self-delusion. If you keep telling yourself that you have foreign policy experience and you keep hearing that assertion repeated in the echo chamber that surrounds you, do you really start believing it?

Second point -- Palin talks about knowing how to tell the good guys apart from the bad guys. Is it just me or does she sound like someone who is talking about whether she'll share her snack with some kids but not others during the kindergarten recess?

Even if you are more forgiving of tone and nuance, or of her lack of foreign policy experience, the "with us or against us" philosophy is the continuation of the same hardline and petulant Bush foreign policy that has left our relations with allies and foes in tatters.