>> No. Germany?  Of course not.
>> Japan?  No, they got carried away during WW II.
>
> Sheesh.  How long does a country have to behave themselves before
> they're
> a candidate for "moral guide"?  And if it's that long, how come the US
> isn't in trouble for assorted nastiness well before WW2?
>
> How about Australia or New Zealand?  Norway, Finland, or the


Sorry, Australia has no morals.  What do expect from a nation of pommy
(mostly Irish I think) convicts anyways?

The natives get fairly shabby treatment.  The best we can say is we've
stopped shooting / poisoning / giving them diseased blankets.

Look!  A tree!  Quick, cut it down!

White Australia policy.  For every foreigner who emigrates, 7 British
subject need to turn up as well to balance things ok.  British subject
didn't mean people from Africa or India, cause they weren't white. 
Commonwealth, what's that?

No nukes, but digging it up & selling it is ok.

Ok for the UK to set off nukes in the desert.  Don't worry about the wind.
 The deal was that in return they'd give us some.  Didn't happen.  Use
local troops to test radiation effects.

Dumping refugees in the middle of the desert for a few years.  In camps
run by private (American) companies.  Except for the ones we dumped in
other countries (and paid them).  Change the borders so you can claim
they're not in Australia anyway.

Deported a woman in a wheelchair because she looked a bit foreign.  Her
kids & husband wondered where she was.  Department realized they made a
mistake, decided not to tell anyone.

First country to publicly support the US in invading Iraq.  That's ok,
no-one noticed anyway (including the Americans).

Yeah, we know you helped us stop the Japanese in WWII, but we're going to
screw you over anyway.  We need the oil.  Sorry about that.

It's quite ok for the US to lock up our citizens for a few years with out
trial.  Knowing they have the death penalty, we tip off other countries to
drug couriers, that than arrest them here.  Much neater that way.

New anti-terror laws.  You can be locked up without charge.  Even better,
if they let you go and you tell someone about it, they'll lock you again
(and the person you told)!  Beat that, Nazi Germany!

Opposition party has same policies as the incumbent.  Kinda defeats the
purpose.  Actually, they play one-upmanship, for the anti-terror laws,
they'll probably want to shoot you if you tell someone.

Free Trade Agreeement with the US.  We got screwed.  We liked it.  So they
told us.  Also brought some old helicopters that the US couldn't give
away.  All the way with LBJ!

So you lost a leg or two in Vietnam.  Get a job, 'cause you're not getting
a pension.

Free university education.  Not any more.

Changing the labour laws to be just like America.  Now I can sell my lunch
break for $3.24.  Bargain!  I wonder what I can get for my holidays?

Hmmm, just like most countries, really.

Tony

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