Does Sarah Palin know anything about foreign policy? Rachel Maddow examines her recent interview

McCain and Obama favor admission of Georgia into NATO and have spoken out against the Russian invasion of Georgia. That part of her response to ABC's Gibson on how to respond to Russian aggresison in Georgia was fine. But what appalled me about Palin's remarks was her casual "perhaps so"—not in answer to a question formulated as, "Would we have to assist Georgia" if Georgia joined NATO...Legally, the NATO treaty doesn't require us to "go to war"—it just doesn't. If a fellow NATO member is attacked—in a manner satisfying the treaty terms—the treaty obligates parties to "assist the Party ... so attacked by taking forthwith ... such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." Palin is trying to tell us that she is ready to be commander in chief—right away!—if something should happen to McCain. She needs to know this stuff...no one in the mainstream of either the Democratic or Republican Party thinks that we should "perhaps" get into an actual "war" with nuclear Russia over Georgia's borders. And for that reason, no one ever, ever says that "perhaps" we'll have to go to war with Russia—because there is just no "perhaps" about this. We're not going to do this. It would be—to bring back a phrase from not so long ago—mutually assured destruction. And we actually do not want to return to that era, which was far more dangerous than the current era. No one wants that. That's why there is some ...



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