Thanks to Wikileaks the taxpayer now sees the gulf between the Australian government's REAL prognosis of the Afghan war and it's sunshiny, public face.
We keep throwing lives & gold for a decade down these Afghan & Pakistani ratholes only to help fund more corruption and the rapid breeding & training of insurgents and young suicide bombers.
But Rudd, in his restless quest for international votes to secure the position of UN SEcretary General is apparently ready to tell any and everyone what they want to hear all the while greasing their palms with taxpayer's money.
As for war with China, as Bertrand Russell put it, war does not determine who is right but only who is left.
And that pretty much describes the aftermath of a nuclear war.
