[NZerFromHK]

This is why New Zealand is not on a whole to the left of the US on each and every issue. I think bureaucracy administration, trade policies, and agricultural and industrial policies are the areas NZ is more conservative. But no doubt any defence hawks would be treated as a parish in this country, and NZ does have a naive worldview of wanting to "trade freely with everyone" eg selling lamb to Iran and tarde with Cuba or North Korea.

[BlazingArizona]

Yes, there is also an admirable lack of bureaucracy everywhere. What Americans dislike is NZ's pacifist foreign policy, which seems to have arisen from the searing experience of World War I, when the British dispatched NZ troops to Turkey, where they were wiped out. This experience soured New Zealand on war, not to mention its formerly close relationship with Mother England. Even small towns in NZ have elaborate WW I memorials to this day.