When Couric asked how Alaska's closeness to Russia enhanced her foreign policy experience, Palin said, "Well, it certainly does because our ... our next-door neighbors are foreign countries." Alaska shares a border with Canada.

 

Does this mean that the Govenors of say, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine also have foreign policy experience?

Yes it does.

Ya know...I heard Palin stopped the Great Moose War of '07. Those Canadian Moose are terrorists.

 

And gay.

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Yes it does.

The interesting thing is...it's actually entirely possible that sentiment could be right, no matter how funny it sounds. If you were governor of one of those states and actually had to deal with major issues involving the other nation...immigration, trade, border disputes, resource disputes, whatever, then you at least have a little. Mexico was cited as foreign Policy experience for 43 back in 2000.

 

Perhaps interestingly also...Governor Palin didn't seem to have much interest in Russian diplomacy until, you know, late August of this year.

Opportunities abound for Alaska governors to engage in Russian diplomacy, with the state host to several organizations focusing on Arctic issues. Anchorage is the seat of the Northern Forum, an 18-year-old organization that represents the leaders of regional governments in Russia, as well as Finland, Iceland and Canada, Japan, China and South Korea.

 

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Yet under Palin, the state government — without consultation — reduced its annual financial support to the Northern Forum to $15,000 from $75,000, according to Priscilla Wohl, the group's executive director. That forced the forum's Anchorage office to go without pay for two months.

 

Palin — unlike the previous administrations of Gov. Frank Murkowski and Gov. Tony Knowles — also stopped sending representatives to Northern Forum's annual meetings, including one last year for regional governors held in the heart of Russia's oil territory.

 

"It was an opportunity for the Alaska governor to take a delegation of business leaders to the largest oil-producing region in Russia, and she would have been shaking hands with major leaders in Russia," Wohl said.

The interesting thing is...it's actually entirely possible that sentiment could be right, no matter how funny it sounds. If you were governor of one of those states and actually had to deal with major issues involving the other nation...immigration, trade, border disputes, resource disputes, whatever, then you at least have a little. Mexico was cited as foreign Policy experience for 43 back in 2000.

 

Perhaps interestingly also...Governor Palin didn't seem to have much interest in Russian diplomacy until, you know, late August of this year.

 

Way to take it back to serious, Balta.

Way to take it back to serious, Balta.

It's what I do.

 

That and killing polar bears with my bare hands.

If my professor for national security policy was right a couple years back, yes they do have foreign policy experience.

It's what I do.

 

That and killing polar bears with my bare hands.

 

You and Sarah Palin.

Ya know...I heard Palin stopped the Great Moose War of '07. Those Canadian Moose are terrorists.

 

And gay.

 

 

They deserved it.

 

They were flaunting their universal healthcare.