Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

By BENYAMIN KORN, Special to the Sun | March 16, 2011
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-d...oes-her/87263/


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The call by the Arab League for Western military intervention in an Arab state — in this case asking that a UN “no-fly zone” be imposed over Libya – is not only without precedent but it puts in formal terms what Governor Palin stated three weeks ago should have been America’s response to the political and humanitarian crisis now unfolding there.
The former GOP vice presidential candidate was being interviewed on February 23rd on national television by Sean Hannity on a range of issues. On the Libya crisis, she proposed a no-fly-zone to protect the armed and un-armed opposition to the Qaddafi regime. Mrs. Palin’s formulation had been blogged about for nearly a week when it was echoed by the man who, before the Iraq war, had led the Iraq democratic movement in exile, Ahmed Chalabi.
A long-time foe of Saddam Hussein who has emerged as a leading figure in Iraq’s democratically elected legislature. Mr Chalabi recounted in the Wall Street Journal how President George H. W. Bush’s 1991 call for a popular uprising against Saddam had been heeded by the Iraqi people, only to have Saddam then murder some 30,000 of them from helicopter gunships while the Western world stood by.
Not again, Mr. Chalabi pleaded in his essay, and explicitly demanded a Libyan no-fly-zone. But it now it seems Qaddafi will be allowed to repeat a Saddam-style repression, even as President Obama, and the rest of what he likes to call the international community, is “watching carefully.”
Mrs. Palin also continues to link America’s energy policy — a realm in which she has experience — and U.S. foreign and anti-terrorism policies. She recognizes that the ongoing transfer of billions of U.S. petro-dollars to unstable or even hostile Mideast regimes has, since the formation in 1973 of the Organization of Petoleum Exporting Countries, been an drain on U.S. financial resources.
In a critique of Mr. Obama’s energy policies published yesterday at about the same time the Arab League was adopting her prescription for a Libya no-fly-zone, Mrs. Palin laid out how the president’s “war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security.” Nor is Gov. Palin’s insight into complex international issues limited to areas of her immediate expertise.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin — certainly no knee-jerk advocate for Sarah Palin — wrote just a few weeks ago that Palin turns out to have been correct in the prediction she made to Barbara Walters, in a much-noted November 2009 interview. Palin stated she was opposed to Obama’s opposition to Israel’s settlement policies because “[m]ore and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead.” Now, as Rubin noted, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics confirms that the pace of immigration to Israel rose 14% to 16,633 from the level in 2009, most coming from Russia or America.
Mrs. Palin will be in New Delhi later this week delivering the keynote address to the annual India Today Conclave. She has been asked to speak on “What America Means to Me.” She will speak as a crisis is simmering between America and Pakistan, India’s nuclear-armed neighbor to the northwest and will be the first high profile trip by a potential Republican contender to South Asia.
More broadly, Mrs. Palin’s address in India will be another step in the growing outline of what might be called The Palin Doctrine. It contrasts sharply with the foreign policy being conducted, if that is the word, by President Obama, who is perplexing not only the Arab world, to which he reached out in his Cairo speech at the start of his presidency, but even his own supporters in the liberal camp, and many in between, who are upset by what might be called his propensity for inaction. It’s an inaction that suggests the Arab League won’t be the only institution that might find itself surprised by the logic of the alert Alaskan.
Mr. Korn, director of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, holds a degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

 

Palin's "predictions" were like predicting that McDonalds will sell burgers today. That pain at the pump she was talking about that is caused by domestic drilling policy changes is something we all already knew. The thing is this, continuing to drill to quench our thirst for petroleum products is like having a toothache and continuing on because you don't want to endure the pain of a tooth extraction. Unless we ween ourselves off of this oil dependency, and turn to alternate energy sources we will always be the middle east's bitch. Palin is just complaining about not being able to chew. I think Palin speaks to be heard, not because she actually has anything to say. How she has ANY credibility is a storyline for Unsolved Mysteries.

 

alt energy,,,think air travel,jumbo jets,ending anytime soon? until flying saucers are used by more than just liberals,jets and cars will use oil. or could we use wind power or maybe cover jets with solar panels and use little electric motors with teeny propellers,like kids have on their beenies.

good to know that Palin strikes fear and terror into the hearts of marines too,albeit left wing liberal marines.kind of an oxyMORON,,,LIBERAL MARINE.!!
pink panties we assume

 

Fear? No, it's more like ridicule. See what I mean by extreme? There's no middle ground with conservatives and logic goes in the trash like spoiled food. The fact is, we consume more oil than we produce which causes a dependency. I never said we should stop drilling. That's just not possible or logical. We need to gradually WEEN as I said, ourselves off of the dependency. Cold turkey won't work. When we can supplement our oil consumption with other forms of energy, we can consume oil within our means, and only drill for what we'll need. When that happens, who cares what they do in the middle east? I'm not a Liberal, I'm a realist. There are far to few like me.

We talk about the budget deficit, and that we need to spend within our means. What about oil consumption? We have an oil consumption deficit causing us to go elsewhere to buy it. If we change our oil diet the country will get healthier.

Here's an oxy-moron: "Christian Conservative"

 

Semper, got a mirror in your house? Give it a workout. Your attitudes and philosophy are every bit as "radical" as those christian conservatives you claim don't exist. You sound just as inflexible, just as entrenched in your outlook as the conservatives you so obviously despise. Your arguments would carry more wieght if you yourself didn't come across as ultra " progressive ". Neither extreme is good but the far left is wackier than the far right by a country mile. Personally I take care of my family, my obligations and my future. I don't want the government doing it and I don't want the government taking from me to provide for those that won't provide for themselves. I donate and vote accordingly.

 

You got that out of my posts? No wonder we have such a problem between parties. Quote something from my posts that would be considered ultra-progressive as you put it. I'd love to see what you're referring to. I hope it's not just based on the fact that I don't give Sarah Palin any credibility. Many conservatives feel the same way about her, so what could it be? I honestly have no idea where you could have gotten that from.

If radical means I think we should gradually back off of oil until what we produce ourselves is sufficient, yes I'm radical.
If I think that a good chunk of people's opinions about president Obama are based on fear, bias, and racism, yes I'm radical.
If I think that the term "Christian Conservative" is an oxy-moron because the two philosophies conflict with one another, then yes I'm radical.

We can send billions of dollars in aid to foreign countries to help their people, but when it comes to helping our own citizens it becomes too expensive. Just how Christian is that?

 

Hammer meet nail

 

I'm told that we have enough oil under our feet in this great country to last 2,000 years. Yes, some of it we don't have the technology to safely drill yet, but a great deal of it can be had now with the technology that we do have. Then, there is also the vast amount of oil we have off the coasts. So, the "weening process doesn't have to start right away.

Think of the advancememts we have made in the last 100 years! In 1900 we didn't even need oil for gasolene.

Within the next few hundred years we will have cold fusion and forms of energy that we can't even imagine at this time.

So, there is no need to panic.

Besides, contrary to what the "Global Warming zealots think, this planet is headed for another ice age, and there is nothing that we can do about it. Don't panic about that, either, we have a good 5 million years to find another planet.

So, use the natural resources. Don't worry about it.

 

No idea what that's supposed to mean, especially since the original quote was so off target.

 

atv jr ,,,,you are right on target,no panic,no rush,theres plenty of oil/coal and we in USA use it more wisely than anyone.
in china the air is bad and gittin worse.
the arabs sell us oil cause they drive camels. but we could be selling to them IF WE WOULD DRILL,DRILL BABY DRILL

also i dont need anyone judging my Christianity based on his,,,left wing distorted standards. Christians are not perfect,no one is.