When the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Philip J. Crowley tweeted this morning, “Happy birthday President Ahmadinejad. Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be,” Sarah Palin went into a tailspin. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer are two of the three Americans who were detained and imprisoned by Iran while hiking near the Iranian border in 2009. Their companion was recently released, but Fattal and Bauer remain in an Iranian jail. While Crowley called for their release in his sardonic tweet, Sarah Palin took his words out of context in her bizarre and harsh reaction over twitter:

Apparently for Sarah Palin, calling for the release of American hostages in Iran is just another attempt by the Obama Administration to “coddle enemies.” Surely, this will feed into rightwing conspiracy theories of Dinesh D’Souza and Oliver North , among others, who believe that Obama has a deeply “anti-American” foreign policy.

Here are Crowley’s tweets that supposedly “coddle enemies”:

Update: In a follow-up tweet, Palin continues her foreign policy analysis: