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You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska. ~Sarah Palin That settles it, doesn’t it?  You have to be impressed, in a chilling, unnerving way, by how she avoided the question about restoring Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and how she insisted that the Russian incursion was unprovoked.  She made sure that she reiterated support […]

You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska. ~Sarah Palin

That settles it, doesn’t it?  You have to be impressed, in a chilling, unnerving way, by how she avoided the question about restoring Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and how she insisted that the Russian incursion was unprovoked.  She made sure that she reiterated support for Saakashvili, which is apparently now fundamental to U.S. foreign policy.  Palin also came fairly close to saying that the 9/11 attacks occurred because the hijackers hated us for our freedom.  Also, we must not blink.

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