Sarah Palin in a 'very dangerous world'

Despite my previous objection to commenting on Sarah Palin, the US Republican Vice Presidential candidate has entered the US national security debate in a big way, making her fair game. The excellent Danger Room picks up on the story and highlights this quote, stating her view that NATO should expand to include Georgia.

GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?

PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help ... We have got to make sure that that is the group that can be counted upon to defend one another in a very dangerous world today.

Hawkish to say the least. I can't believe these comments are unadvised, which makes me worry further about the trajectery of the McCain political team. Speaking of which, I thought John McCain was the foreign policy and defence expert?

Almost within the same news cycle, Sarah Palin drew a direct comparison between Iraq and 9/11, a connection which has already been widely discredited and finally disproven by the press, opposition and adminsitration alike.

Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."

She continued...

"I believe that America has to exercise all options in order to stop the terrorists who are hellbent on destroying America and our allies," she said after several questions on the topic. "We have got to have all options out there on the table."

You can find the full article generated from this interview including a section of the original interview here.

Not more of the same, but worse.