< class="posttitle">Interview with a Hockey Mom
Posted by: Steven Perez in politics, video, tags: bush doctrine, charlie gibson, hubris, invasion of afghanistan, invasion of iraq, military interests, policy principles, preventive war, sarah palin, wingnuts, wtf
Last year, Pop needed a web site created for a side business. He tapped me to do the job, mostly because I sound like I know what I’m doing when it comes to all things internet. Well, a geek I may be, but I know my limitations. I couldn’t do everything Pop needed for his business and I told him that, while I may not be able to handle the job, I knew someone who worked with HTML for a living. Thus, my buddy Sean was hired, and he did a bang-up job for Pop.
The point of this story is this: know your limitations. If I had done the job, it would have been botched, because while I can do a number of things with computers, creating a web page from scratch is not one of them. Oh, I can fool around with a WordPress template or set up a blog (or even nuke it, natch), but creating something from nothing? That would have ended with a half-baked web site and an angry parental unit.
Which brings me to Sarah Palin and this wonderous attempt at bovine scatology.
My, she is quite the talking-point machine, isn’t she?
For the uninitiated, a working definition of the Bush Doctrine:
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan. Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.
In other words, this set of ideas is the main reason why our soldiers are now firmly embedded in the Middle East on two fronts. George Bush decided that a big stick should be used before speaking softly, and one can clearly see the results of such a boneheaded move.
And so, breaking down all of this as succinctly as I can: Sarah Palin has no idea why her son is going to Iraq.
Oh, I’m sure she can spew out the mishmash of talking points, just like any good dittohead. But the fundamental underpinnings of our nation’s foreign policy for the last eight years? Completely clueless. Worse still, she has no problem sending her son into that hornet’s nest without first educating herself as to the whys and wherefores. Instead, she tries to BS her way out of the question.
Mind you, I’d venture to say that most people have no freaking idea what the Bush Doctrine is. Hell, I had to look it up to make sure I knew what it was. But then again, I’m not running to be half a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. I’m not the one who loves touting her foreign policy experience by telling anyone who will listen that Russia is right next door to her state. I’m not the one who is supposed to be the fresh new face in the election who is going to bring her homespun small town philosophy to international politics.
I know my limitations. It’s a pity Sarah Palin never learned her own.
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