Why are we going to bomb Iraq? (members)

Wednesday 27 August 2014

Some months ago, Prime Minister Abbott declared his resistance to the idea that Australia commit any air power to strikes upon Syria because it was a case of:

“It is not goodies versus baddies, it is baddies versus baddies, and that is why it is very important that we don’t make a very difficult situation worse.”

This raises the possibility that the Abbott foreign policy agenda is values based and that Australia will participate in far flung wars when “goodies” are threatened by “baddies”. Today, the Prime Minister and his Holt Street press office are clearly preparing Australia for just such an expanded mission role in Iraq:

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.