“I don’t take this elite foreign policy view that only this anointed class knows everything about the world,” he [Kagan] said. “I’m not generally impressed that they are better judges of American foreign policy experience than those who have Palin’s experience.” ~The Politico

On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security and said that war with Russia may be necessary if that nation invades another country [bold mine-DL]. ~ABC News

To the extent that you have the likes of Kagan in the foreign policy elite and they also hold insane views with respect to confronting Russia over anything and everything, Kagan may be right that Palin’s judgement is no worse than theirs, since his judgement on relations with Russia is atrocious and so is hers.  Of course, her horrendous view is almost certainly a direct result of listening to McCain advisors, including Kagan, who probably forgot to mention that threatening WWIII is not a good way to start reassuring voters that Palin is ready to be President.  

P.S. Palin gets hegemonist bonus points for this:

The Governor advocated the accession of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.

With respect to Dr. Trifkovic, I think his hope that “The Weekly Standard cabal and their ilk will be hard-pressed to make President Palin obey a bunch of Manhattanite intellectual pseuds, let alone to internalize their foreign policy schemes that are evil, stupid, and harmful to our troops’ safety” was misplaced.  She has already embraced these schemes, and I see no reason why she would reject them were she one day to become President. 

Update: Palin also said, “We will not repeat a Cold War,” but seems to have no clue that she is proposing to do just that.  To be fair, I should add that her statement about a war with Russia was tied to NATO membership for these countries, so her remarks are no worse than the standard McCain view that these countries should be incorporated into NATO, but that still makes them quite awful.