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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