How to lose friends

So Rudd has already gotten Japan offside, more recently China,ignored India, while the USA basically ignores him, but at least he still has Gordon Brown as a ‘good socialist how to destroy a nation’ friend. Next stop of the world ‘how to lose friends’ tour, Indonesia. I can’t imagine that SBY is terribly pleased with Rudd. Certainly Howard never dumped his illegal immigration problem on Indonesia like Rudd has done.

Oh, and recall Wilson Tuckey’s comments about the possibility of terrorists being amongst the illegal immigrants? Of course there was the predictable Rudd inspired media outrage:

Yesterday, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith refused to say if he was aware of Canadian press reports that a suspected terrorist had been found among the 76 (Sri Lanka) boatpeople.

But Singapore-based terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said Tamil Tiger ships formerly used to smuggle weapons to guerilla fighters in Sri Lanka are now operating out of Indonesia as people-smuggling vessels.

He said Australian authorities were on the alert for Tamil Tiger ships in the region, “because there’s a real threat that one of these ships may try to enter Australian waters”, carrying fugitive members of the rebel force….

The Indonesian and Australian authorities are understood to be co-operating in surveillance of several metal junk ships known to be owned and operated by members of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which were crushed by the Sri Lankan military forces last May.

Senior government sources have told The Weekend Australian that a number of the Tamils detained on Christmas Island are suspected of being former fighters, citing the presence of shrapnel wounds as possible indicators of Tiger membership.

So basically Smith has gone into denial mode, which will weaken our borders. Rudd is calling on Turnbull to get rid of Tuckey. Turnbull should hold the line and tell Rudd to go check his facts. I don’t think it is any coincidence that as soon as the Tamil Tigers were defeated, the civil war ended and violence dissipated, we find ourselves beset with a group of Tamil’s looking for asylum.