Banging the War Drums, playing Pipes, Sarah Palin calls the Wrong Tune

Palin either did not read or she did not understand Buchanan’s column last Friday. How else could she have failed to notice that not only the few concluding paragraphs dealing with Pipes’ war drums but Buchanan’s entire article were highly critical of the position she was espousing to Wallace?

Banging the War Drums, playing Pipes, Sarah Palin calls the Wrong Tune
Marsha B. Cohen

In a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, political aspirant and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin confused and conflated the neocon “bomb, bomb Iran” message of Daniel Pipes, founder and Director of the right-wing neoconservative Middle East Forum with the views of conservative MSNBC news commentator and Townhall.com blogger Pat Buchanan.

Last Tuesday, in the National Review (see Jim Lobe’s comments, Feb. 2), and reproduced in the Jerusalem Post , Pipes declared that bombing Iran was the only way that President Barack Obama ( “a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear and whose policies I work against”) could salvage his failed presidency and assure his re-election in 2012.

In a Friday column headlined “Will Obama Play the War Card?”, Buchanan noted the popularity of sanctions and military strikes against Iran in several recent public opinion polls and in Congress, among members of both parties, particularly in the Senate. Buchanan suggested that the most recent Iran sanctions, lopsidedly approved in the House and agreed to in a voice vote by the Senate, targetted Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad less than they did the President of the United States:

The Senate is trying to force Obama’s hand, box him in, restrict his freedom of action, by making him impose sanctions that would cut off the negotiating track and put us on a track to war — a war to deny Iran weapons that the U.S. Intelligence community said in December 2007 Iran gave up trying to acquire in 2003.

If it is in the interest of the US to support “those elements in Iran who wish to be rid of the regime and re-engage the West,” Buchanan wrote, the recent sanctions legislation in the Senate and House “seem almost diabolically perverse.”

Buchanan noted that the low-enriched uranium at Natanz. sufficient in quantity for a single test, “has neither been moved nor enriched to weapons grade.” Drawing attention to Ahmadinejad’s overlooked offer last week to accept in good measure the West’s deal that would exchange Iranian enriched uranium for imported nuclear fuel for Iran’s civilian reactor, Buchanan pointed out that Iran’s known nuclear facilities are under U.N. supervision, that the number of centrifuges operating at Natanz has fallen below 4,000, and that those centrifuges that remain may be breaking down or have been sabotaged.

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The only thing she's not confused about is that she could be just as good a front-man for the neocons as GWB was.