Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stepped up attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, saying that his policies, such as sending U.S. troops into Pakistan in pursuits of militants, could spark an international crisis.
In this regard, she also faulted Obama on his willingness "To sit down with the world’s worst dictators without preconditions," to unilaterally send forces into sovereign Pakistani territory to try to kill Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda officials, or to draw down U.S. troops in Iraq.
“Senator Obama has also advocated sending our U.S. military into Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. Invading the sovereign territory of a troubled partner in the war against terrorism,” Palin, the Alaska governor, told a campaign rally in Nevada Tuesday.
Obama, for his part, has said he never called for invading Pakistan but taking actions against high value targets if Pakistan is unwilling or unable to do that.
Palin also advocated sending the American military into Pakistan from Afghanistan but not without Pakistan’s approval. She expressed her support in a conversation with a voter in Philadelphia less than a month ago, “If that’s what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should."