Time for leadership in Zimbabwe
Mugabe's time has passed and Tsvangarai's has not yet come. There's a stalemate in Zimbabwe and there is only one way to resolve it.
Even though Tsvangarai won the first vote and the "runoff" was always going to be a joke, the reality is that the MDC (the party opposing Mugabe) has been smashed. It cannot perform the role of a political party, namely tying the
Mixed messages as usual
The only country that could cut itself off from others and survive is China. The United States would die if it walled itself off from influxes of people, goods and ideas, and so would Australia. China is a nuclear power and is enormously powerful militarily. When John Roskam talks about getting tough with China, what (if anything) does he mean?
IF THE priority the Rudd
Fly-by points
Australia should not seek to have a poor relationship with Japan, but the new Australian government is doing the right thing by changing tack a bit on this relationship.
The hysteria in this article is unwarranted. Australia is an observer at the G7 meeting in Japan and there are a number of other joint Australia-Japan initiatives on the diplomatic rounds to suggest the
Whatever, dude
The sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, along with the US election campaign, has focused attention on the merits of going to war in Iraq.
Phillip Coorey makes the point that those who were too enthusiastic for war in 2002 look a little silly now. I have no idea why there wasn't a kind of PunditWatch in force to embarrass Bolt et al much, much earlier.
Then there were
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