Peacenik: US out of…Australia?
Marine_7002 sends us a link from the Marine Times 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;
“I’m for armed independence, armed neutrality in the Pacific,” he said. “Australians fear this is an occupation. … This is our sphere.” China, the principal target of this new U.S. defense posture, “is our biggest trading partner here in Southeast Asia, the reason for prosperity,” he said.
He’s disappointed his government caters to the U.S., driven by a World War II-era alliance that’s “gone toxic.” That alliance, he contends, is to blame for lost lives, including 300 troops and $7 billion for the war in Afghanistan, money “that could have been spent in Australia on a lot better things.”
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.
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.
The Peacebus is outfitted with loudspeakers and colorful banners proclaiming “Troops out of Afghanistan! No more US wars!” and “Shut the Darwin US Marine Base.” 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.
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.
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I’ve been to Darwin when the US sold Abrams to the Aussies.
They aren’t too keen on them either.
That’s not hyperbole, Jonn. It’s raving lunacy.
Australia is bigger than CONUS. It would obviously take far more than a few hundred troops to “occupy” any place that large. Common sense should tell anyone with a functional brain that if we’ve only got a few hundred troops there it’s by invitation.
Guess this validates that Dunstan hit the bong a few too many times back in the 1960s or afterwards. Or more likely both. (smile)
We should tell him he won an all expense paid trip to New York to speak to the UN. Then alert the airport & make sure the dope sniffing dogs were there looking for him.
Dunstan wants the Pacific to demilitarize. This moron must be related to Neville Peace in our Time Chamberlain.
Hondo, I think he’s been living inside a bong all these years.
He said, “I’m for armed independence, armed neutrality in the Pacific,” he said. “Australians fear this is an occupation. … This is our sphere.”
As Hondo noted, Oz is not only immensely big, but it’s also exceptionally desolate (except for the populated areas on the coasts), hot, and rife with all sorts of critters and such that can make life miserable for humans. Why would we WANT to occupy it?
Reminds me of the story of the Marine private who was listening to a battalion surgeon describe the natural hazards he and his fellow Marines would find when invading Saipan. When the doc was finished reciting a litany of the bugs, diseases, and wildlife that they would face, he asked if there were any questions. The private’s hand shot up in the air.
“Sir, why’n hell don’t we let the Japs keep the island?”
That alliance, he contends, is to blame for lost lives, including 300 troops and $7 billion for the war in Afghanistan…
That sentence is a mess. Australia may have 300 diggers in Afghanistan (I don’t know), but icasualties has their total losses there as 32 (FWIW, 2 in Iraq).
Anyway, Ozzies call them “swampies” I believe (that comes from reading Tim Blair’s blog).
Grrr the rest of the commment I’d intended to leave in #6:
I jest about that private’s comment in regards to Oz’ desolation, but the thought that we would want to occupy Australia is ludicrous. Dunstan’s delusional.
Another filthy hippie high on something.
Darwin has a Marine base? Seriously?
For a second there, I thought he was gonna get all pissed off because of the boats that visit Freemantle. My one trip to Australia (has it really been 20 years???) I was impressed and humbled by the hospitality of the Aussies when USS Proteus visited both Sydney and Brisbane.
Hell, we even had a stowaway who wanted to join the Navy when we got back to Guam.
Maybe he’s just pissed off that most of their women love Americans. Just sayin.
Australia has nine of the ten most deadly snakes in the world.
And we would want to occupy it…why?
Beer and women, PNag. One is hot, the other is cold. Both are good.
PintoNag: I believe you’ve said in other posts that you live in the US Southwest. Look out your window.
I’ve not been there personally. But photos of the Australian outback I’ve seen look remarkably like the US Southwestern deserts.
Not everybody’s cup o’tea. But IMO, beautiful.
There’s something to be said for being able to look out the window and automatically smile because it’s . . . beautiful. Even if it’s harsh and difficult at times.
I don’t like either women or beer, Sparky, so you’re on your own over there.
Hondo: Northwest. Montana. Rugged mountains. And most of the dangerous stuff is large enough to shoot at.
PintoNag: OK, sorry. Memory, while good, is never perfect – as I just proved. (smile)
Hondo: No problem. My memory isn’t what it used to be, either.
And I agree with you about rugged landscape being beautiful.
Consider the source.
Note that this is one Australian hippie, yet somehow this rises to the level of news. Why? Don’t the ‘journalists’ have something better to do, like report on something that actually has meaning or significance?
I think you spelled his last name wrong. It’s “dumpstain.”
No, Darkwater, they don’t! But, if they didn’t report these loons, we wouldn’t get to enjoy laughing at them.
The hippie is lying. Straightforward, unadulterated lying.
China is forcing itself very aggressively on the nations in that part of the world. So much so that the Philippines have decided to get the US of A back into Subic Bay and Clark AFB.
Australia is actively recruiting (h/t Op-for.com) American combat veterans for all of its services. It needs the experience and toughness, and their government is very Liberal, but somewhere still to the right of Obama and Mao – peaceniks should rule, but experience and reality says otherwise.
With Japan, Guam, and Australia, adding the Philippines puts a very effective ring around the PLAN and its efforts at power projection. PRC and PLAN have been very transparent, even open, in their designs on the Pacific.
The PLAN wants a war. Australia intends to be ready for it.
The hippie, at best a fool, more likely a paid agent of the PLA or PRC.
Not to worry, folks. Most Australians have
special places in their hearts for Americans
and members of the U.S. Military especially.
BTW, although they’re sensitive to events in
Afganistan, they’re more aensitive to events
closer to home, aka, “The Forgotten War”, i.e.,
the routing of Muslim terrrists in the Phillipines.
The Australians and the British are our staunchest
allies. A little known fact: The French are, too.
They not only routed the Muslim terrists,
but they scared the sh*t out of terrorists, too.
Been perusing his FB pages and wiki. He’s a graduate of the Aussie West Point (RMC Duntroon) and in 1966 he laid down in front of a car carrying their PM and President Johnson. He works with Stand Fast (think a Costco version of IVAW) mostly old bald fat guys, not the one who actually are serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. their protests get even less attendance than IVAW and again mostly look to be the grandparent set.
Hippies like to think of themselves as mavericks who think outside of the box, when, in fact, nobody is more of a conformist than a hippie is.
Because all of them are dense, [very] shallow, ditzy, immoral and extremely ignorant, all of them act, talk, think and even dress alike as clones of each other. They’re such phonies, and they’rs so dull, tedious and boring. They contribute nothing that we couldn’t do without. Nothing.
I wonder how dufus feels about the Recruitment of British and US Veterans to come serve in Australias Military?? Maybe he will serve in Australias Armed Forces to bolster their ranks, in order to lessen the need for a US Presence back in that region…
I think he’ll change his tune when the next major illness bursts out of Guangdong Province, and most of the Pacific Rim countries get overwhelmed.
No. 24 Brian :
“. . . nobody is more of a conformist than a hippie is.”
You said it .
Slow news day
@ #27 – I’ll deny it.
it’s not just a few hundred: by 2015 there’ll be 2500.
I’m not a hippie (well, I smoked a bong before, but …)
I just don’t like having that level of ‘enduring presence’ in my town. I think australia’s security should continue to be built on maintaining useful relationships with all our regional neighbours. This new direction (in the context of drones on cocos islands, ships in SW WA, and visiting forces in FNQ) jeopardises those relationships. And I worry that having a permanent base will ensure that we get dragged along into the next USA war, not matter how illfounded that may be.
I oppose the new bases because I think they’re bad for our national security.
Well then, Larry, why don’t you do your own dirty work instead of having us carry the load for ya?