I don’t understand why Palin isn’t doing more interviews in America. In her hourlong appearance on Canadian TV, she engaged in a trenchant critique of Samuel Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations theory, identifying the western Balkans and central Asia as but two significant outliers. She acknowledged Syrian secret service involvement in past unrest in Lebanon, but said to craft a Syria-focused US policy vis-a-vis Lebanon for that reason alone would be "reductionist." I didn’t understand the second half-hour very well, when she was answering the questions in French. But I think she gently corrected the interviewer’s imprecise use of the word "geostrategic."

She also speaks many foreign languages fluently: