During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his indecision and moral equivalence may encourage Russias Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Palin said then: After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obamas reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russias Putin to invade Ukraine next. For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine. In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into the neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now. Hounshell wrote then that Palins comments were strange and this is an extremely far-fetched scenario. And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraines pro-Western government without firing a shot, I dont see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel, Hounshell dismissively wrote. Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obamas running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to gird your loins if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:21:46 +0000