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 Russia 's
Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine .
Palin said then:
After the
Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia , Senator Obama's reaction was one of
indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only
encourage Russia 's 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 Palin's comments were "strange" and
"this is an extremely far-fetched scenario."
"And
given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine 's pro-Western government without
firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell
dismissively wrote.
Palin made
her remarks on the stump after Obama's 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.
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