Where's that international community?

Remember the good old days when beer was served in those thick returnable bottles and the world hated us because George Bush was president?

Remember how a President Obama would salve all wounds and have the world join us in our crusade to wipe out terrorism?

Someone needs to get the memo to Kevin Rudd.........

Kevin Rudd has thrown his support behind US President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy but the prime minister reaffirmed his position that Australia would not boost troop numbers in the war-torn country.

The two leaders met in the White House Oval Office on Monday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss a "wide range of issues" from Afghanistan to the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mr Rudd was briefed on Obama's new blueprint for Afghanistan, which is expected to include an injection of 30,000 more US troops and strategies to fast-track the training of Afghan military and police so the responsibility of security can be handed back to the Afghans.

Obama will reveal the details of the plan in a televised address in the US on Tuesday.

"This approach outlined by President Obama is one which Australia fully, I repeat, fully supports in the future," Mr Rudd said, speaking at a press conference in Washington DC after his day of high-powered meetings, told reporters.

I always like that phrase "fully support" when the person "fully supporting" you doesn't do a damn thing.

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