ABC has started airing Charles Gibson's interviews with Sarah Palin, and so far, there've been no surprises. I can't imagine that these interviews will change anybody's mind about her.

As many of the media were reporting this morning, Palin has a tough approach to foreign policy. Based on her answers to Gibson's questions, if she were president, we'd have a repeat of the Bush militaristic approach to the world. She stands by Georgia's Saakashvili, favors admission of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, and yes, if they were admitted and Russia attacked one of them, the US would need to go to war against Russia. (She tempered that slightly by saying that she doesn't foresee another Cold War, and that the US might need to impose economic sanctions on Russia.)

If Israel decided it needed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities? "I don't think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves," she said.

Does she agree with George Bush that the US should wage pre-emptive strikes against countries we consider to be a threat? The president's duty is to defend the country, she said. Gibson pressed again on the issue of pre-emptive strikes and got this response: "If there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against America, we have every right to defend our country."

Does the US have the right to make attacks inside Pakistan, without the approval of Pakistani's government? "America has to exercise all options in order to stop the terrorists who are hell bent on destroying America and our allies."

That was about it for the substance last night.

Gibson asked about her limited travel abroad and her lack of association with leaders of other countries.Americans want change, she said. They don't want "more politics as usual and somebody's big, fat resume."

According to several media reports, before being selected as McCain's vice-presidential candidate, Palin had said that she didn't think global warming was caused by humans. In the Gibson interview, she backed off slightly, saying, "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now."

What about her statement that US soldiers in Iraq are "on a task that is from God?" That "there is a plan and it is God's plan"? Her statement was "a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words," she said. "A repeat." Actually, Lincoln didn't say that at all, but I don't expect facts to get in her way, any more than they have with her stand on the bridge.

You can read more extended excerpts from the first two interviews on the ABC News website. And there'll be more video from the interviews tonight, on "20/20," airing at 10.

Now we'll see whether anyone else in the press will have access to her during the campaign.