06.20.04 (7:59 pm) [
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John Howard: American Wannabe?
I’m sure I’m not alone when I worry about John Howard’s personal feelings and affinities towards the US and how they might be clouding and distorting his view of what is best for Australia in an Australian climate. The war in Iraq is a prime example. We all took to the streets and said ‘No, bad idea, more evidence please, etc’. The Free Trade Agreement is another. Why why why? I don’t understand it and I’m not alone in feeling that there are enough voices of dissent about the FTA to warrant further public justification and explanation – something like the very happy and friendly Medicare ads we’re getting at the moment. But that’s another thing where I get the feeling that Howard’s government is on their knees every night, praying that no one will start asking questions. I’m not well informed enough, but the complainants voicing their concern are large enough to have me worried – more explanation again please.
The thing that has me the most worried lately is the overall trust that Howard is thrusting toward the US and north American culture in general. My dad heard him the other day talking about the Iraqi war in terms of ‘We must step up to the plate’. Isn’t that ‘Step up to the crease’ Johnny? The link that has started this train of thought is a pair of quotes in the weekend broadsheets. The first I noticed was from the front page story ‘US alliance ‘on the ballot’’ where Howard is discussing our interests in sending aid and troops overseas. He makes a speech on Friday night, saying that Latham’s promise of withdrawing active troops from Iraq is a stupid thing to do and terrorists will start thinking that they’ve won. He says: ‘We cannot put a fence around our country or our region. We cannot withdraw back to the illusion of Fortress Australia.” He’s talking as though our navy were never engaged in turning away boats full of asylum seekers and maintaining boarder security. The thing that irks me about that quote is that I moved from the front page section of The Age to the Weekend Magazine in The Australian and found the US ambassador to Australia, grinning with his many chins and saying ‘I think Americans recognise that there are great issues afoot in the world and that we can’t withdraw to fortress America and hope that they’ll go away.’
What’s with all these fortresses?
Why is our leader echoing American sentiment?
Why is he creating the impression that we [i]have[/i] a fortress? A fortress defending us against who? Shit-scared refugees?
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06.20.04 (11:39 pm)
Hey sam, did you know your site has a link to maccers? is this intentional..making us do some homework before your next story??
Good stories (so much for keeping them short) i dont have that much free time at work. you should send your articles to some magazines, i recently heard that will anderson used to write for dolly (or some other girly magazine) and if he can do so can you! cant wait to read the next story.
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06.21.04 (1:37 am)
Yes - the maccas link is intentional. I was going to put it in the essay, but I'm just trying out putting it on the side for now.
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