LFTC - Our Ally Down Under: Part V

Part V (9:07) covers the future of global and Australian political and economic freedom.  He sees two decisive turns over the past decades: the end of Soviet imperialism and the lifting of hundreds of millions around the globe out of poverty.  He sees as unlikely a return in the West to the degree of government control over economic activity that persisted throughout the 1960s & 1970s.  Howard sees India's rise and that of Muslim democratic Indonesia as key to Australia's future in Asia.  He calls his country a "blunt but loyal" friends of America's.  One can only hope that President Obama understands how true that is, lest otherwise he wreck a precious friendship.