Transcript here.* Apparently "Alaska is close to Russia" is officially endorsed by McCain and Palin as evidence of her experience. Yikes. I thought just a couple of the dumbest talking heads would try to play that card.
* She dodges the issue of Abkhazia and Ossetia.
* The NATO thing comes up after Gibson asks her if Georgia should be a member and she says yes. Oy. This changes the context of her war in Georgia answer. It's no longer just a hypothetical about Georgia in NATO, but a hypothetical based on her own preferred policy.
* She greenlights an Israeli strike against Iran, which we shouldn't even "second-guess" much less stop. I assume she's giving clearance to use Iraqi airspace.
* The Bush Doctrine bit is the highlight of course. She has no idea what it is and tries to BS through it.
* Gibson actually botches it a bit, saying it involves preemption rather than preventive war (one is "OMG they're about to attack us tomorrow!" and the second is "OMG they might eventually have weapons then decide to attack someone!"). Palin uses an imminent threat standard, which reminds me of Bush and his supporters in 2003/4 being completely adamant that they never called Iraq an imminent threat.
* She really doesn't want to answer yes or no on that Pakistan incursion question. Probably because the answer is yes but there was an idiotic hubbub when Obama said so last year.
This is not a woman who has been interested, even as an amateur observer, in foreign policy. She has no clue what's going on and no compunction repeating what she's told, even if those ideas would involve massive amounts of death and suffering.
Someone wrote that the worst thing George W. Bush ever did was not realize he wasn't cut out to be president. I think Palin's got all the same chipper, ignorant hubris that he did back then. There was never a hint that she thought about the magnitude of dealing with the world as president, rather than just repeating McCain's talking points phonetically.
