We Aren't Winning The Terror War

There was a saying that my mother pased on to me from my grandfather. It went something along the lines of "We fight while the yanks sit around drinking beer and stealing our women". That was the feelings of the Australian solders in WW2. They were off fighting in some of the worst places while the yanks sat around on Australian soil and clamed they were doing us a favor.

As you said it is history so we will never know but the yanks never got involved out of a desire to help poor old Australia.
 
"over paid, over sexed, and over here" is the one I think you mean Asguard :)

They were yes... but to say we were doing all the fighting while they sat around is a subjective opinion... ask any of the US soldiers involved in Guadalcanal, the Phillipines or in the "Island Hopping" campaign. Our entire involvement in the Pacific was, apart from the navy and air force, about 2 divisions of troops or so.

They had far more troops involved in actual fighting in the pacific than we did... just took them a while to get there. and I said that they "incidentally" saved us... which means we were an afterthought of their own ambitions in the region. That doesnt change the fact that they might have saved us though.
 
Indeed, Chagur, a well-pointed observation

Didn't the Republic of the Philippines, in effect, kick the US out (remember the Subic Bay Naval Base) and nothing dastardly occurred.
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An excellent point that I had forgotten about. To the other, didn't that occur after we lost our puppet dictator to the will of the people? (Incidentally, there's a great P.J. O'Rourke article on the Marcos/Aquino election ... I think in Age & Guile, that's just hilarious.)

And in between there is the hissy-fit our people threw all over Australia about the heroin programs; that's on the Clinton administration for all I care. Nonetheless, if we're not going to let the Aussies handle their drug problems without a shovelful of threats and apoplexy, I'm not sure we'd accept our military being booted out. As an interesting consideration, I can only wonder at what conditions would bring that about, and how our government would react to those conditions--e.g. ... okay, I can't imagine Aussie going red, so I'll have to think about what conditions would prompt that eviction.

It's been years since I read Bonner's Waltzing With a Dictator, so Phillipine politics escape me these days.

But you do have a point, sir.

thanx much,
Tiassa :cool:
 
tiassa

I can think of a few that very well could happen.

We wouldn't surport the US if they used the Nuke, I can almost garitee your eviction in that case
 
Never happen... They're too important to our own defence. We dont have any effective military of our own, and rely on the US too much.

It would take, like Asguard said, a nuke attack or something... and even then we would probably only "strongly condemn" the action :)
 
Barney_TRubble

Unfortunatly its true that the will of the voting public is less important to the current goverment than what the US wants from us.
 
The following cartoon expresses a likely scenario in the locating of Osama:

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HAHHAHAHAHHA

as if

The satilite would probably crash when they tried to pinpoint him
 
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