Bombs over Raqqa
Australian military involvement in the middle east is all about politics at home
By Mungo MacCallum, August 2015
From the fastnesses of the island of Mer in the Torres Strait, Tony Abbott assures us that he will carefully consider the American request for Australia to extend its bombing raids from Iraq to Syria “in the next week or so”. Who does he think he is kidding? The decision has already been done and dusted – in fact, was probably preempted months ago.
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