Raise a glass to Tony
On September 10th, 2015, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced his decision to end RAAF airstrikes on Syrian government targets and focus exclusively on bombing Isis. Mr Abbott was, in fact, the very first NATO-aligned leader to do so. ‘This is not an attempt to build a shining city on a hill,’ he said of the Australian war effort; ‘this is not an attempt to build a liberal pluralist market democracy overnight in the Middle East.’
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