Sarah Palin stepped boldly into the arena of foreign relations with two stellar displays of readiness for the presidency while talking with interviewer Charles Gibson yesterday:

• Asked if the U.S. should go to war over the Russian incursion into Georgia, Palin said, “Perhaps so.”

• Asked what she thought about the Bush doctrine, she was apparently unfamiliar with the term and surely so with the doctrine’s bent toward waging preemptive war to prevent potential attacks or related security threats.

Palin Action Figure! Zowie!

Oh, dear. I think I’ll return my new Sarah Palin Action Figure to the store. She looks pretty but she knows almost nothing that would prepare her for said “action.”