Happy Birthday ANZUS

2011-11-16

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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Happy Anniversary, ANZUS! It’s the 60th birthday of the Australia-New Zealand-US alliance, better known as ANZUS. This team proved to be a bulwark against Soviet ambitions in the Cold War. It survived strains caused by anti-nuclear fervor in New Zealand jeopardizing our naval deployments there. Arguably, ANZUS has never been more important than now as the three English-speaking Pacific democr...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Happy Anniversary, ANZUS! It’s the 60th birthday of the Australia-New Zealand-US alliance, better known as ANZUS.

This team proved to be a bulwark against Soviet ambitions in the Cold War. It survived strains caused by anti-nuclear fervor in New Zealand jeopardizing our naval deployments there.

Arguably, ANZUS has never been more important than now as the three English-speaking Pacific democracies confront an increasingly aggressive and hegemonic China.

So those who love freedom should welcome today’s announcement by President Obama and his Australian counterpart that they have agreed to base up to 2500 U.S. Marines and conduct increased joint air operations on the Aussies’ north coast.

Let’s hope this upgrading of our common defenses will assure that ANZUS – and the Free World more generally – will have much to celebrate for decades to come.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at securefreedomradio.com.

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