Rudd’s war preparations will damage our key relationships

It’s a Latham-like achievement, Rudd’s disgraceful Defence White Paper has succeeded only in damaging our two key strategic relationships; with the US and China. Brian Toohey has an excellent piece in the AFR today pointing out that we are now at odds strategically with the USA, which rates the likelihood of a war with China at about zero and is far more worried about terrorism, and, of course, China is hardly going to be impressed by Rudd’s naive sabre-rattling. Rudd must call off this circus before irreparable damage is done to our long-term interests.