Law Students

We've had eight years of an administration led by a man who scorns knowledge. Bush launched an illegitimate war based on fabricated intelligence with a country he didn't even bother to familiarize himself with first. (Sunni? Shi'ite? Yeah, whatever... Flowers and candy!) Nearly six years ago, he created a foreign policy of not preemptive war but preventive war by invading Iraq, as the supposed threat posed by Iraq was neither immediate nor even in the foreseeable future. The very important question for the next administration is: Will the Bush Doctrine continue? Will we continue to deal with our enemies with a preventive policy, or will we engage them, relying on diplomacy?

A real good place to start for our nominee for Vice-President (and potential President of the United States) is knowing exactly what our current foreign policy is! Hint: The Bush Doctrine is not defined as "Bush's world view." It's a policy of preventive war. (Someone at least get her on Wikipedia for Christ's sake.) And even after Gibson defines it for her, she still doesn't get it, she starts talking about imminent threats. That's not the Bush Doctrine. Bush Doctrine = Preventive war. Granted, Gibson does misspeak. He uses the word preemptive, rather than preventive, but he does properly explain the Bush Doctrine to her. But if you can't grasp the basic concepts of foreign policy, please step away from the nuke button.

Most of the interview is bad. The fact that Palin would have us fighting a war with Russia right now if Georgia were a member of NATO, it's downright frightening. As Madeleine Albright once said, "Armageddon is not a foreign policy." Well, not yet, anyway.

The scary interview: