US likely to miss PM's Hicks deadline

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Jane Holroyd
February 15, 2007 - 2:35PM

David Hicks is unlikely to be formally charged by US authorities in the next few days, meaning Prime Minister John Howard's mid-February deadline will not be met.

In late January Mr Howard told reporters he had given the US Government a deadline of mid-February for laying charges against the Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate, who the US military alleges was an al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan ...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-likely-to-miss-pms-hicks-deadline/2007/02/15/1171405352811.html

I'm guessing Johnny doesn't understand how "cooperating" with W works. Sure, while Johnny supports W's war, W will provide some help now and then (like sending Armitage down to piss on the opposition during the last election cycle). And W will share some Rovian tactics for turning anxiety into votes (though some of the Rovian tactics will be stuff like attacking Obama, which American Publicans will like but which may not actually help Johnny much). But reciprocity isn't part of the deal: Johnny will get naught but a long stall if he tries to get anything from W that W didn't offer first.

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1. I think he is finding out now that it is a one way relationship.

I don't know what has taken him so long. As far as I can see it has always been so.
In the US the only game in town is domestic politics. The rest of the world
is only there to serve that fact. I'm fairly sure that this won't benefit
the US in the long run. What if all the IOU's were called at once.