The sell-out fails again
Well, it came even sooner than I expected. Garrett's sell out is now glaringly obvious to even the most uninterested observer. However, I didn't expect it on this issue (I thought uranium mining was to be the sticking issue).I miss the old Garrett that wasn't afraid to stand up for controversial issues like opposition to US "imperialism".
Once again it is left to the Greens to state the glaringly obvious:
Australians are now even more deeply enmeshed in United States military endeavours, whether we agree with them or not. It is a classic John Howard capitulation to US military interests.And the ALP are no better when Joel Fitzgibbon, shadow Defense Minister, and now Garrett simply toe the line.
I call on the Labor Party to make its position clear on the proliferation of US military facilities in Australia. Will Kevin Rudd simply fall in behind John Howard as previous Labor leaders have done?Well I guess they have.
posted by Joel MacRae @ 5:08 pm
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I heard the other day that, in spite of how far our noses are up the US'...
... I heard that in spite of our relationship, the US won't sell us the newer aircraft that we wanted.
Our current fleet have good capabilities, but the airframes are so extremely old and have done so much more service than designed that Australia leads the world in the technology to combat metal fatique. So long ago should the airframes have been retired that the manufacuter of planes won't offer any support to Australia's use of things like boron patches to strengthen most fatigued parts of the chassis.
I also heard a ridiculous amount of service time required, something like six or twelve hours of service for every one hour of flight...
.. and the new fighers we were after are quite obsolete and long superceded but the reason the US gave was that these aircraft were too new to sell to us.
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