state of the union, page-14

re: state of the union/usa today's take The point towie is that I DON'T live there! I live here! I don't live in YOUR house, I live in MINE. Nor am I going to send next door's kids to go and fight you, if I know you're a gruesome bastard. Nor would I make you into a gruesome bastard by buying you all the destructive toys you need. Nor support you in developing that mean streak of yours, or behave in an even meaner way. And, not finally but it will do for here, I would need to show how you are a threat to others -unequivocally- before I did send my neighbours children to your home!
The dreadful think that I see coming out of this war is that the Australian army will be hard pressed to find young people to join it, if their current goodwill is abused so badly. Why join? You'll only become the joke of the politicians!