{"id":263,"date":"2006-05-29T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2006-05-29T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T02:12:11","slug":"howard-government-gets-it-right-on-east-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Howard Government gets it right on East Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Little Johnny gets it right for once\" title=\"Little Johnny gets it right for once\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/howard_laurels.jpg\" \/>John Howard and DFAT deserve praise, exceedingly rare from me at least, for prepositioning the ADF in northern Australia, even before the official request for military aid was submitted by the East Timor government. Australian forces were there in hours after the formal request instead of days. Nice work.<\/p>\n<p>The speed at which horrific militia violence spread during and shortly after independence elections in 1999 was a hard-learnt lesson to the UN and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK to be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/opinion\/the-feelings-mutual--well-mostly-\/2006\/05\/28\/1148754868867.html\">smooth as a cue ball<\/a> if you can cover your bald spot with laurels.<\/p>\n<p>Good onya, John.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Howard and DFAT deserve praise, exceedingly rare from me at least, for prepositioning the ADF in northern Australia, even before the official request for military aid was submitted by the East Timor government. Australian forces were there in hours after the formal request instead of days. Nice work. The speed at which horrific militia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}