'The most ill-informed, under-prepared, and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history'

[Matilda]

5. This is also a dig at the unquestioning subservience of Australian conservatives to the U.S.

I don't think many on DU would question Gareth Evans' comments about Trump, but Australian conservative leaders in particular, even Anglophiles like Abbott, have a bad habit of going along with ill-judged forays of the U.S. into foreign wars.

Labor leaders are rather less into forelock-tugging than their Lib counterparts, but voters of all persuasions are often unhappy at seeing us dragged into messy, protracted overseas wars that generally end up going nowhere and proving nothing.

And when the U.S. President is a man of demonstrable ignorance and poor judgment, it's horrifying to see our ridiculous PM jump up and start echoing him. I remember Vietnam all too well - it was my friends who were being called up - and none of us (except the Liberal Party) have forgotten the huge outcry against going into Iraq. Yet Malcolm Turncoat seems to have forgotten this in his desperate eagerness to be accepted by Trump.

Some people never learn.