I disagree with the assertion that it is either fight them there or fight them here. I do not think most of these backward terrorists even know where Australia is and are too busy fighting each other for local supremecy to have time for us anyway.
I condemned Howard for keeping us in Iraq, tho I supported a short term invasion, and I am not happy about us being in Afghanistan either. Rudd knows better than to stay in Iraq and I hope it dawns on him one day that we do not belong in Afghanistan either.