So, you're asking—is she apologizing for hillbillying up the country?
Nope.
Is she apologizing for "Refudiate"? Nope.
Is she apologizing for putting the cross-hairs of a gun sight on Rep. Gabriel Giffords' District? Nope.
Is she apologizing for "Blood Libel"? Nope.
Is she apologizing for her family getting into a ridiculous 20-person drunken brawl this week? Nope.
While responding to the president's speech on ISIL with Sean Hannity, she apologized that she "let" Barack Obama become president, as if she really had anything significant to do with it after he had already beaten Hillary Clinton in the primaries, and McCain collapsed into a quivering mess in the wake of the Mortgage Meltdown of 2008.
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"And, as I watched the speech last night, Sean, the thought going through my mind is ‘I owe America a global apology. Because John McCain, through all of this, John McCain should be our president.’ He had the advice, today, still giving it to Barack Obama, and he will not listen to it, about the residual forces that must be left behind in order to secure the peace in Iraq that we had fought so hard for.”
Yeah, uh, no—I'm thinking that's not an apology America is going to accept.
If anyone beside of Simple-Sarah were to actually look it up, the status of forces agreement that we had with Iraq was signed by George W. Bush, not President Obama.
Bush: I am also looking forward to signing the joint statement here affirming two landmark agreements that solidify Iraq's democratic gains, that recognize Iraq's sovereignty, and that puts the relations between our two countries on a solid footing today and a solid footing tomorrow. They cement a strategic partnership between our two countries, and they pave the way for American forces to return home, as the war in Iraq approaches a successful end.
The fact is that President Obama
did attempt to amend that agreement and leave a set of "advisers" behind in the country, but the Iraqi parliament were having none of it. Via
Time.
But ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki's ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration's plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.
So the deal we had was
Bush's deal. Not Obama's deal.
The only way to keep any troops in Iraq beyond the pull-out date set by President Bush would have been to allow them to be subject to the local Iraqi legal system. If the U.S. had been willing to accept those terms, the troops left behind would not have been combat ready. Whether 3,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 strong, all version of this agreement would have required them to be training personnel, not combat troops ready to be deployed against additional threats.
The idea that these forces could have been instrumental in turning back ISIL as they advanced out of Syria is just. plain. flat. out. crazy. talk.
ISIL would have loved the chance to directly smash some American forces rather than just grab American gear from the retreating Iraqis.
Apparently foreign policy and national security is just a bit too "complimacated" for people who would be proud to have dropped out of school in the 6th grade, and sound like it.
8:14 PM PT: Y'know I didn't want to foster a Sarah Palin hate fest, I think that's unnecessary and to some extent redundant. I don't hate the woman, it's just think that her lies, delusions and paranoia are dangerous for the nation. She does, whether we like it or not, function as a stand in for the perspective and voice of many Americans who feel "their country" is irrevocably slipping away from them.
Everyone has a right to their opinion, no matter how fucked-up that opinion may be contrasted to facts, but I don't think this is personal. I don't feel this viscerally. The Palin's feed on hate. Their paranoia is fueled on it. This entire brawl situation is a classic example of it. I've seen both the pro-Sarah documentary Film The Undefeated and the anti-Palin film Sarah Palin: You Betcha and naturally Game Change on Netflix. I think all fail to show a clear and full picture of this woman who in my opinion does have a natural political brilliance to know exactly what certain people need to hear as well as the deep-rooted religious panic that drives this family. She keep our attention for a reason. She a Dumb Genius. An idiot savant. She remains in our consciousness for a reason, and we oppose the wrongness of her ideas for reasons that are just as strong.