Mr Romney would take a more hawkish line abroad, with more criticism of enemies and more buttering-up of old allies, though a war-weary America would be no more likely to get involved in new conflicts.
This combination of factors leaves us no choice but to get far more serious about this war than we have been to date.
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Nonetheless he had done no more than rub shoulders with it, serving out the war mostly in Anti-Aircraft Command and Combined Operations HQ.
We agree that it would be no small thing if post-Cold War Russia aligns itself more closely with the West.
But British MPs who backed the war reluctantly are now asking ever more loudly why no smoking gun has been found.
Its new alignments, no longer so wedded to cold-war geography, will probably be more effective.
In the context of the cold war between America and Russia, a weakened Britain was no more than a marginal player.
What is more, prior to the Gulf War, the RRF ships had no crews on board leading to a long activation time in an emergency.
The war looms over everything, he said, and no one likes paying more at the pump.
Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even more devastating weapons, in the same way that no one used poison gas in World War II for fear of the consequences.
Australia has been a staunch ally of the United States, fighting side by side with the U.S. in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the first Gulf War, and Howard argued that Australians should always remember that no nation is more important to our long-term security than that of the United States.
More than 17, 000 American soldiers have been wounded in the war in Iraq, but there are no reliable numbers when it comes to injured Iraqi troops.
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