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"Reply to: Question for you. How would you feel if the US took the same political positions as your country? For example banning all American nuclear weapons and ships here and abroad. What if Australia did the same? Would you feel safer if America and Australia had no nuclear weapons whatsoever? Do you think China and others would stop producing them? Do you think they would "never" use them?

If you answer that you wouldn't feel safer, then why do you expect others to provide a stable world for you to enjoy cost free? Freedom has a cost associated with it. To allow others to provide an umbrella of security is selfish and ultimately self-destructive. Tyrants always come along though out history and exploit/conquer the weak. They only understand force. That force is what keeps us all safe".

Australia doesn't have nuclear weapons, but goes along with the US' "neither confirm nor deny" policy on visiting ships etc.

I think only a madman would ever use nuclear weapons. I understand the "mutually-assured destruction" rationale that keeps them in the inventory, but they are not needed in the South Pacific, thanks all the same.

I resent your inference that we expect others to provide a stable world cost-free. We are a foundation signatory of the UN Charter, and (unlike the US) pay our dues. We also have contributed significantly to peace keeping operations as a UN member, and stood alongside the US in ALL of its wars.

Then apparently you think there are no "madmen" in the world.

After all only a madman would fly civil airplanes into buildings and kill 5,000+ people at a time. But that would never happen would it.

If you think the UN keeps the piece and the US doesn't provide massive resources to the UN then who is sticking their head in the sand?