Crazy Thoughts On the Australia-USA Alliance

From the Prime Minister Australia almost could have had (if we were not so scared of him):

We should have a look at how New Zealand has made itself the safest country in the world. There is no terrorist threat to New Zealand that has been identified but (there is) one here. If you go supporting bad American policy you make yourself a bigger target and you stir dissent in your own country.

If the Americans continues with Bush's policies they will never win the war against terror. They are bogged down in this for the rest of our lifetime. If Iraq is an example of how they are going about their work, they are never going to win that. They are just going to maximise dissent and aggression against them and nations that join in bad foreign policy as a neo-colonial partner of the US are obviously going to run into a lot of strife. That's the Australian dilemma led by John Howard.

He's totally mad, obviously. And he has medical problems with his spleen, which explains a lot. Poor man...

Mr Latham said Australian politics was a little American club where journalists like Paul Kelly and Greg Sheridan and American barrackers like Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley took junkets to the US.

"This is a dialogue thing they have and other forms of largesse and they start the policy debate by saying no matter the issue, no matter the circumstances, what they need to do is work out how do you support the United States of America," he said.

"When you look at party political research, political people don't say this openly, because the electorate thinks we need the US because they are worried about an invasion from Indonesian.

"This the last bastion of the white Australia mentality, we need a big brother to protect us from the Asian threat from the north."

Totally, totally barmy. Lucky we didn't vote for him, eh?