Found two brilliant essays online by a Canadian guy named Mike Cowie. I won't quote every quotable, as, honestly, pretty much every paragraph is perfectly and succinctly argued, but here are some of the bits that resonated with me most strongly:

Freedom Denied: The Crushing of Sri Lanka's Tamils"So, with the war in Sri Lanka now over and the ( Read more... )

"Kevin Rudd ... invited Dr Harold Crouch of the Australian National University to address Labor's National Security And Trade Caucus Committee. ... Crouch supported Rudd, expressing the view that [Laurie] Brereton's* call for peacekeepers was unsound. Rudd's activities did not go unnoticed; a few months later, the Indonesian government invited him ( Read more... )