{"id":30422,"date":"2012-06-18T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30422"},"modified":"2012-06-18T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T13:47:17","slug":"peacenik-us-out-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30422","title":{"rendered":"Peacenik: US out of…Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marine_7002 sends us a link from the Marine Times<\/a> which reports that some hippie turd, Graeme Dunstan, in Australia has made it his life’s mission to boot the US Marines from Australia because he “abhors American arrogance” in the region;<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m for armed independence, armed neutrality in the Pacific,\u201d he said. \u201cAustralians fear this is an occupation. \u2026 This is our sphere.\u201d China, the principal target of this new U.S. defense posture, \u201cis our biggest trading partner here in Southeast Asia, the reason for prosperity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s disappointed his government caters to the U.S., driven by a World War II-era alliance that\u2019s \u201cgone toxic.\u201d That alliance, he contends, is to blame for lost lives, including 300 troops and $7 billion for the war in Afghanistan, money \u201cthat could have been spent in Australia on a lot better things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess he’s forgotten about the 88 Australians whose lives were lost in the Bali bombing in 2002 and how the war in Afghanistan kept terrorists so busy that they don’t have the time to strike at Australian citizens again.<\/p>\n

To call the presence of a few hundred US Marines in Australia, an occupation is hyperbole. I’m sure that it would take more than a couple companies of Marines to “occupy” that country.<\/p>\n

The Peacebus is outfitted with loudspeakers and colorful banners proclaiming \u201cTroops out of Afghanistan! No more US wars!\u201d and \u201cShut the Darwin US Marine Base.\u201d Dunstan wants the Pacific to demilitarize, a view that falls in great contrast to what President Obama has set out to do with an expanded military presence across the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it New Zealand, Australia’s neighbor that sought to disband it’s military just before the war against terror began and the Bali bombing altered the course of that brainstorm. But no one has ever accused hippies of having a sense for history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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