Palin on Russia

There seems to me a tension between the efforts to diminish or eliminate entirely instruction in U.S. political, legal, and diplomatic history on the one hand and, on the other, the stated aim of most public institutions (including, I assume, Palin's alma mater, the University of Idaho) to prepare their graduates as citizens. How, in effect, can universities tell state legislatures that they are preparing citizens when those future citizens are taught little or nothing about U.S. politics and foreign policy?

In a clip that looks like an SNL parody, Palin demonstrates the extreme version of ignorance in diplomatic affairs, as she amplifies on her point about how Alaska's proximity to Russia enhances her foreign policy experience.
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