Our glorious Bush-lover little UnAustralian appears to be totally irrelevant, never rating a rabbit's fart in the comprehensive guide to the coalition of the willing... But in the growing cacophony of "we goofed" mea culpa clamours, he still hangs on to the "stay the course-ish of being-caught between-a-hard-rock-and-a-hard place-of-our-own making-because-doing-otherwise-would-give-credence-to- terrorism", until the Yanks tell us to ship out or, possibly, until the first "real" few deaths of Aussie troops... Not wishing any ill wind to our brave diggers, the odds are getting short...

In fact, fighting terrorism in open fields using Napoleonic armies is the very thing that gives terrorists legitimacy in their own mind.

But our "I'll-tell-you-that-an-Industrial-Relation-edema-is-good for-you" despot-by-default does not want to see that, because it would show that "once in his life, he had been wrong", wink wink...