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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who returned as a contributor to Fox News Monday, blasted U.S. President Barack Obama over the weekend, saying the U.S. should not intervene in Syria while he is president.

“Until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing . . . let these radical Islamic countries who aren’t even respecting basic human rights, where both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line, ‘Allah Akbar,’ I say until we have someone who knows what they’re doing, I say let Allah sort it out,” Palin told a conservative crowd at a Faith and Freedom Coalition.

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Obama decided to arm select elements of the Syrian rebels after the White House disclosed it had evidence President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons in the conflict.

Many Republicans, including Palin’s 2008 running mate John McCain, had been encouraging the U.S. to intervene in the Syrian conflict.

Palin, who is rejoining Fox News Channel as an analyst less than half a year after they decided to part ways, also offered a warning to “the good old boys” in the GOP leadership who are calling for conservative activists to tone down aggressive rhetoric.

“You do not marginalize, you don’t discredit and dismiss, every day average hard-working Americans – those who are part of that grass-roots tea party movement,” she said.

“Just let them tell us to sit down and shut up,” Palin said later, “which I refuse to do.”