IFILL: Senator, you have quite
a record, this is the next question here, of being an interventionist. You
argued for intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, initially in Iraq and
Pakistan and now in Darfur, putting U.S. troops on the ground. Boots on
the ground. Is this something the American public has the stomach for?
BIDEN: I think the American
public has the stomach for success.
I don't have the stomach for genocide when it comes to
Darfur. We can now impose a no-fly zone. It's within our capacity. We can
lead NATO if we're willing to take a hard stand. We can, I've been in
those camps in Chad. I've seen the suffering, thousands and tens of
thousands have died and are dying. We should rally the world to act and
demonstrate it by our own movement to provide the helicopters to get the
21,000 forces of the African Union in there now to stop this genocide.
IFILL: Thank you, senator.
Governor.
PALIN: But as for as Darfur,
we can agree on that also, the supported of the no-fly zone, making sure
that all options are on the table there also. America is in a position to
help.
When I and others in the legislature found out we had
some millions of dollars in Sudan, we called for divestment through
legislation of those dollars to make sure we weren't doing anything that
would be seen as condoning the activities there in Darfur. That
legislation hasn't passed yet but it needs to because all of us, as
individuals, and as humanitarians and as elected officials should do all
we can to end those atrocities in that region of the world.
IFILL: Is there a line that
should be drawn about when we decide to go in?
BIDEN: Absolutely. There is a
line that should be drawn.
IFILL: What is it?
BIDEN: The line that should be
drawn is whether we A, first of all have the capacity to do anything about
it number one. And number two, certain new lines that have to be drawn
internationally. When a country engages in genocide, when a country
engaging in harboring terrorists and will do nothing about it, at that
point that country in my view and Barack's view forfeits their right to
say you have no right to intervene at all.
IFILL: Governor.
PALIN: I beg to disagree with
you, again, here on whether you supported Barack Obama or John McCain's
strategies. Here again, you can say what you want to say a month out
before people are asked to vote on this, but we listened to the debates.
He knows to learn from the mistakes and blunders we
have seen in the war in Iraq, especially. He will know how to implement
the strategies, working with our commanders and listening to what they
have to say, taking the politics out of these war issues. He'll know how
to win a war.
IFILL: Thank you, governor.
