September 11, 2008

QOTD:

“ The good news, I guess, is that when she’s forced to make up an answer out of whole cloth, she goes with preemption, not prevention. She doesn’t deny that she accepts the Bush Doctrine; she just doesn’t say one way or the other. The bad news is that this makes it pretty clear that the problem isn’t just that she doesn’t know what the name “Bush Doctrine” refers to. She doesn’t seem to know that there was a debate about preventive vs. preemptive war, in which the Bush administration came down decisively on the side of prevention. And that’s a pretty important thing to be unaware of.
Obsidian Wings: Palin And The Bush Doctrine