This article seems to poke a bit at Sarah Palin´s experience and it is something to think about. 1 Year Intensive Degree programs are common, but real foreign policy leadership would be better learned not in a classroom but in the field.

I love the idea of Intensive Grad School Programs. But I also love the idea of not only adding to them by developing real world skills. Let´s talk about local fundraising projects for amazing groups like Kiva, a startup whose mission is microfinancing for small startups in 3rd World Countries.

Other options would be to actually head out into the field and do a few years with the Peace Corps.   I am sure there are many better alternatives or auxilliary paths to foreign policy experience. My personal concept has been to spend time in areas in which you are passionate. If you are passionate about energy and renewable energy spend a year working with a non profit in Africa helping developing renewable energy for small villages in dire need of affordable energy.

With a troubled economy lets look upward towards ways we can improve the world and not trample it again for the next hundred years with failed economic and energy policies that bankrupt us as well as the rest of the globe.