http://everybody-knows.com/2006/05/25/neighbour-in-trouble/ Like a Fish on the Wind I Quack for you Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://everybody-knows.com/2006/05/25/neighbour-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-1774 Everybody Knows » Blog Archive » Why Australia is in East Timor Fri, 26 May 2006 09:07:07 +0000 http://everybody-knows.com/2006/05/25/neighbour-in-trouble/#comment-1774 [...] Its interesting to see last night’s post on foreign forces being sent to East Timor quoted as a typical sympathetic post in the blogosphere. It wasn’t intended as such but i talk it how its given i guess. At work i had a heated discussion with someone at work about why Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal are sending troops. Their view was that it was East Timor’s problem and East Timor should fix it. I take a different view, that a neighbour is in trouble and as a good neighbour we should try to fix it. If our neighbours house was on fire, you wouldn’t quibble over the price of your garden hose, you would give the neighbour a hand with your hose and sort out a price afterwards. This is no different. East Timor is on fire, we need to lend them a hand to put the fire out. [...] [...] Its interesting to see last night’s post on foreign forces being sent to East Timor quoted as a typical sympathetic post in the blogosphere. It wasn’t intended as such but i talk it how its given i guess. At work i had a heated discussion with someone at work about why Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal are sending troops. Their view was that it was East Timor’s problem and East Timor should fix it. I take a different view, that a neighbour is in trouble and as a good neighbour we should try to fix it. If our neighbours house was on fire, you wouldn’t quibble over the price of your garden hose, you would give the neighbour a hand with your hose and sort out a price afterwards. This is no different. East Timor is on fire, we need to lend them a hand to put the fire out. [...]

]]> http://everybody-knows.com/2006/05/25/neighbour-in-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-1773 The Pencil Guy » Archive » A review of what’s been posted Thu, 25 May 2006 15:45:01 +0000 http://everybody-knows.com/2006/05/25/neighbour-in-trouble/#comment-1773 [...] Meanwhile, the subject of my post yesterday, Timor-Leste, has generated remarkably little from the blogosphere. There’s plenty of sympathy for our northern neighbour, but little analysis — this view from NZ is the most interesting post I could find. [...] [...] Meanwhile, the subject of my post yesterday, Timor-Leste, has generated remarkably little from the blogosphere. There’s plenty of sympathy for our northern neighbour, but little analysis — this view from NZ is the most interesting post I could find. [...]

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