Palin: U.S. Must Be Prepared to Fight Russia (Updated)
Last week sacked Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the U.S. should have deployed troops, drones and F-22s to deter, and if necessary fight, Russia over South Ossetia. Now Republican veep nominee Sarah Palin weighs in with her own World War III
-baiting rhetoric, in an interview with*
ABC News' *Charlie Gibson. Palin says NATO should expand to include Georgia:
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO
ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help ...
We have got to make sure that that is the group that can be counted upon to defend one another in a very dangerous world today.