Sarah Palin’s garbled history of the Cold War

“We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s.  That policy was a component of ‘detente,’ and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful.  Things, of course, didn’t work out that way.  The Kremlin took Western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program.”

--Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a Facebook posting titled “Another ‘WTF’ Obama Foreign Policy Moment,” June 9, 2011

Sarah Palin made a provocative attack on President Obama on Thursday over a relatively obscure issue relating to missile defense.

 “President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb.  You can’t buy off Russia.  And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability.”...

Palin inaccurately claims that Obama has threatened a veto over some provisions, specifically section 1228, in the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act that would limit his ability to share such information....