Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

[BlueStateSaint]

It's from a small newspaper in NYC (conservative newspaper, IIRC), and it was published on Wednesday, but it thrusts Sarah Palin right into the conversation on foreign policy.  From Drudge.

Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

By BENYAMIN KORN, Special to the Sun | March 16, 2011

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.

The rest is at:

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-doctrine-emerges-as-arab-league-echoes-her/87263/

At this rate, Gov. Palin might be able to walk all over the Obamessiah, in that all the Republicans will have to say is "change," and a majority of the American public will be more than happy to feel good about their country again.

[FreeBorn]

I for one am looking forward to the Palin Presidency and a repeal of "Don't ask, don't drill".

No more apologizing. Obama has no clue how lucky he is that Libya has not given him a 1979 hostage crisis.

Who would handle that situation better, Resident Soetoro or President Palin?