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Why in Peacetime?

Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:05 am
Opinion: Rajend Naidu

Editor,

A letter writer Anne- Marie Scully (Letters the Age 6/4) is upset that the US marines arrived in Darwin "toting guns". But the bigger issue is why are they here at all - in peacetime?

Yours sincerely,

Rajend Naidu
Sydney

ENDS

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