Australian Defence Minister Not Quite All There...
Last night Aussie Defence Minister Brandan Nelson was on ABC's Lateline, defending his wife's, I mean the Prime Ministers honour when he concluded with something that made me hang my head in shame...Nelson was quizzed over what would happen if Obama's resolution was victorious and the Americans were forced to withdrawal, would Australia stay on?
TONY JONES: But if the Iraqi Government said “Leave the Australians in place, even though there are no Americans here”, you'd do that, is that right?
BRENDAN NELSON: What you're suggesting is essentially ridiculous, Tony, because, at a military level, and indeed at a political level, we negotiate what is in the best interests of Australia and then the interests of the Iraqis themselves and I certainly don't foresee any, if you like, situation whatever the colour of the administration in the United States, where we're going to be in any sort of situation like that. That's a hypothetical and I certainly don't think it will happen.
First and foremost, I have no idea what colour has to do with anything, the entire interview was hilarious, especially when Jones mentioned that Obama's plan was essentially that of the Iraq Strategy Groups which called for a phased withdrawal of US troops, a strategy which Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer described it as a good piece of work, a useful contribution that "draws all the right conclusions about the ultimate objectives"...
Nelson was out of his league and struggled his whole way through, one has to wonder why Howard led this lamb to slaughter... For a full transcript go here.
I'll try not to post on this issue again, unless of course it gets more funnier....
Labels: Alexander Downer, Australia-US Relations, Barack Obama, Brendan Nelson, Lateline
posted by Mark @ 5:22 PM
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