Kevin Rudd is naturally among the first to embrace a stupid idea, of which the sole virtue is that it will give him yet more of the interational attention he craves in his bid to become secretary general of the United Nations. And note again how ready he is to spend yet more tens of your millions.
But paying the enemy - and such an enemy - to stop shooting is a policy of defeatism that will come back to haunt us. For a start, ask yourself into whose dirty hands our money, paid for by the honest, will fall, and to what use it will in fact be put.
