More Crazies? I give you--Sarah Palin.

She speculates about war with Iran in this clip:



Transcript via Think Progress:

WALLACE: How hard do you think President Obama would be to defeat in 2012?

PALIN: It depends on a few things, say he played — I got this from Buchanan — say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected.

WALLACE: You’re not suggesting that Obama would cynically play the war card?

PALIN: I’m not suggesting that, I’m saying if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and secure our allies. I think people would shift their thinking a bit.

And she references the Biblical Queen Esther in this recent "motivational speaking" clip:



What's the connection? This might be the connection:

If you follow the logic in the story - as another fundamentalist Christian website did - you find a "major, and creepily precise" parallel between the threats to Jews then and now. In Esther's day the threat came from Persia - and what country is the modern successor to Persia? Iran, of course -- "the same Iran that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map and is well on their way to acquiring the nuclear weaponry to do so . . . . And along comes tough, clear-eyed, plain-speaking Sarah Palin."

The implications for Palin's Iran policy are clear. In the Bible, after the Jews are saved from annihilation, and after the first day of Jewish revenge against their enemies, the King tells Esther the Jews have killed 500 people, and asks what she wants to do next. Esther says she wants permission for a second day of killing - so the king grants the Jews the right "to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish the entire host of every people and province that oppress them, small children and women, and to take their spoils for plunder."

Does Sarah Palin think like this, or appreciate that people think she thinks like this? People who would use the Bible as justification for war really creep me out. Yes, I support Israel--but no, I don't think deciding that declaring full-scale war on Iran is the best way to do it, for a lot of reasons. None of those reasons will be found in the Bible. Many will have come from my perusing newspapers and periodicals. I read them--and given that Pat Buchanan didn't endorse war with Iran--I'm guessing she's still not reading them, either.