Sarah Palin's Book Displays a Real Commitment to Foreign Policy Ignorance

In reading an article that included some insight excerpts from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, her penchant for devouring critical knowledge of world politics as a potential Presidential candidate is not only non existent, but completely irrelevant in her view. The following excerpts from a recent book review are insightful into her world view and intellectual ambition as a potential future leader of the free world:

In Going Rogue, Ms. Palin talks perfunctorily about fiscal responsibility and a muscular foreign policy, and more passionately about the importance of energy independence, but she is quite up front about the fact that much of her appeal lies in her just-folks, “hockey Mom” ordinariness. She pretends no particular familiarity with the Middle East, the Iraq war or Islamic politics — 'I knew the history of the conflict,” she writes, “to the extent that most Americans did.” And she argues that “there’s no better training ground for politics than motherhood.

Imagine if you will, being selected as a Vice Presidential nominee for the United States in the year 2008. How arrogant would you have to be, to be satisfied with yourself for knowing about the Middle East "to the extent that most Americans did"? How is it easy to justify complete apathy for anything that smells of thorough knowledge or in depth study of the global politics with which an elected Vice President or President would most certainly engage as a part of their duty as a world leader? We have an answer from Ms. Palin: "there's no better training ground for politics than motherhood."

One person's opinion:
I don't have a problem with ignorance until ignorance becomes negligence. Sarah is and was intelligent enough to study the history and politics of the Middle East and other major international issues before, during, and after the campaign. She simply opted out of those pesky tasks because "motherhood", not the comprehensive study of relevant cultural and political history, is the ubiquitous qualification for international relations oversight and foreign policy development.