IGNORANT AUSTRALIAN
Australian John Pilger is remarkably ignorant of matters Australian:
Australia is not often news, cricket and bushfires aside. That is a pity, because the regression of this social democracy into a state of fabricated fear and xenophobia is an object lesson for all societies claiming to be free. In power for more than a decade, the Liberal prime minister, John Howard, comes from the outer reaches of Australia's "neocons".Yep, you can't swing a wombat without hitting an Australian neocon. Read the whole article; Pilger-rage is a hoot.
posted by Anonymous at 2:02 PM |
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Yer, the usual boilerplate GermsPilge hate-Australia-fest. Better still is the comments, chockful of disgruntled 'Aussies' who've just returned home after years of exile and wanting to leave again post-haste, but not before they've checked into commentisfree.
I dunno. A few weeks ago John Howard talked about how our foreign policy in the Pacific is about fighting "evil". Don't you reckon that sounds like a leaf out of a neo-con's book?
I wasn't aware that fighting "evil" was a neo-conservative perogative....
Ahem, I meant "solely" a neo-con prerogative.
No Quentin, it probably ain't. But using it is a rhetorical device in foreign policy making is certainly a characteristic of neo-con-ism-ness.
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