Sarah Palin gives a visual representation of her foreign policy experience
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Sarah Palin, who gave up her career as governor of Alaska to become a fresh, powerful and informed voice on U.S. foreign policy and national security—especially on global nucular nuclear security issues—has once again impressed Americans with her in-depth knowledge of and experience in such matters.
In two historic and defining speeches, Palin has decisively shown how President Obama’s signing of the nuclear disarmament treaty is a treasonous act that will render our nation virtually defenseless.
Her detractors, led by the mainstream media, are naturally attacking the governor and disputing the facts.
They have chosen to ignore that, as governor of Alaska—our first line of defense against the Russian nuclear threat—Palin was the commander-in-chief of the Alaskan Air Guard and had at her beck and call an awesome fleet of fighters and bombers tipped and loaded with nuclear weapons. An armada she launched and controlled every time Putin reared his head and ventured into U.S. air space—those “frequent Russian incursions.”
Just listen to the Governor: “It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation.”
It was exactly Alaska’s proximity to Russia that gave Palin her extensive foreign policy experience, an experience that was suddenly and greatly enhanced when she met briefly with seven foreign leaders at the U.N. in 2008, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai who gave her a definite thumbs up.
“I found her quite a capable woman,” Karzai said later. “She asked the right questions on Afghanistan.”
Has any foreign leader ever said such complimentary things about President Obama?
How can anyone even begin to compare Palin prowess to Obama’s measly experience as a community organizer, as a part-time Senator and as President of the United States and commander-in-chief for a mere 15 months. We just need to look at and compare Obama’s miserable accomplishments to date with regard to North Korea and Iran to president Bush’s eight-year-long bang-up job.
The president claims that he is taking his advice from his National Security Adviser, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and many others. What a joke! These people have probably never fired a weapon from a flying helicopter at a running wolf or moose below, as Palin and her experienced adviser, Todd, have done on many an occasion. Americans will surely trust decisions on our nation’s nuclear posture to people who have been steeped in these matters since their childhood; people who know how to use and fire rifles; people such as hunter Sarah Palin and, before her, hunter Dick Cheney.
More specifically, with reference to Obama’s signing of our unilateral nuclear disarmament treaty, Palin made these profound remarks:
You know that’s kinda like getting out there on a playground, a bunch of kids, getting ready to fight, and one of the kids saying, “Go ahead, punch me in the face and I’m not going to retaliate. Go ahead and do what you want to with me.”
Experts on Palin’s staff have verified that a treaty that leaves the United States with a mere 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads and a mere 700 to 800 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and heavy bombers is in fact “kinda” saying to our adversaries “Go ahead and do what you want with [us].”
Obama apologists will try to tell you that 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads are sufficient to destroy the total world population many times over. Don’t listen to them, that’s just a liberal myth. As it is also a liberal myth that the U.S. has conventional weapons that have more explosive power than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that the U.S.’ massive arsenal of conventional weapons can “bomb any and all adversaries back into the stone age.” Poppycock!
Governor Palin has documented her breadth and depth of national security and foreign policy knowledge in her recent book Going Rogue, a treatise brimming with facts, truths and acumen on these matters.
What has Obama written? A couple of novels overflowing with syrupy “Hope and Change,” and we all know now how that hopey, changey thing is working out for ya, don’t we?
Now I ask you, whom do you trust with our national security: Sarah Palin who says, “Don’t retreat. Reload,” or Barack Obama who has just signed a document that leaves our nation utterly defenseless.
The choice couldn’t be clearer. You betcha!
Image and Caption: Courtesy Somecountryforoldmen.com
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.