Russia’s loss may be McCain’s big gain as Mrs Palin works her magic

Russia’s loss may be McCain’s big gain as Mrs Palin works her magic
Wales Online
Sep 11 2008 David Williamson

FOREHEADS of foreign policy pundits furrow when they imagine Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin steering the US through an international crisis.

JFK radiated cool at moments during the Cuban Missile Crisis when even a cucumber would perspire. How would the woman described by the wife of her running mate as a “reform-minded, hockey-mommin’, basketball-shooting, moose-hunting, salmon-fishing, pistol-packing mother-of-five” respond to such a challenge?

Russia’s dramatic intervention in Georgia has reminded the world that the former superpower has a multitude of tanks – many of which are still in working order.

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Russia’s loss may be McCain’s big gain as Mrs Palin works her magic