This is another of those First World War military alliances

This is not a defence pact::

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/08/australia-us-sign-defence-pact-201481251124370185.html

It is a classical pre First World War military alliance. It was a result of these idiot military alliances that Europe tumbled into the First World War - a war fought over nothing and yet at horrendous cost immediately and afterwards.

It was the progenitor of the Second World War.

Now that Australia is tied to the American elephant, she will be required to participate in any one of an innumerable possible American wars in Asia.