The ABC program, The Chaser’s War on Everything, is somewhat like the USA, and by implication Australia: it is permanently at war.
We are fated never to know peace. The Pentagon, and the war machine in its thrawl, has contingency plans until 2047, or so it is reported. Australia will be inevitably drawn along, sucked in, unless something changes in the mind of the body politic, if indeed it has one with respect to fighting, murder and violence. So much for that paradigm.
John Yoo, now Professor of Law, at UC Berkeley was one of the principle enablers of the torture regime, pretty much continued unmolested by the “change you can believe in” Obama Administration. So it was encouraging to see the penetration of the politics of spectacle made possible for passes for television comedy. Here is the video, via The Raw Story: