> you and the aussies should team up and send a flotilla to assert your territorial rights.
We do our best with what we have available: but we're a country with a population the size of metropolitan Chicago. Our resources go only so far: we do peacekeeping in Bougainville and East Timor, we've got soldiers in Afghanisan, and we patrol a huge part of the South Pacific for piracy, drug running, illegal immigrants, search & rescue, illegal fishing, smuggling...
We catch as many bad guys as we can.
Misfire? I don't think I was the author of the 'flotilla' comment.
"We do our best with what we have available: but we're a country with a population the size of metropolitan Chicago. Our resources go only so far: we do peacekeeping in Bougainville and East Timor, we've got soldiers in Afghanisan, and we patrol a huge part of the South Pacific for piracy, drug running, illegal immigrants, search & rescue, illegal fishing, smuggling...
We catch as many bad guys as we can."
Oh I know dude, you guys have been awesome with the war on terror. Since the japaneese have become rather pacifistic though, you could probably send a digny with the nz flag and a rifle and you probably could scare them off. And of course you could hit them in the pocketbook by doing a economic and tourist boycott of japan. Im not sure if toyota sells cars in nz, If they do start there.