For a guy who was an intelligence officer that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard anyone claim.
But, I suppose it plays well to the econut wing of the Liberal electorate because, it exonerates our progressive neighbours down south for any culpability that their retarded foreign policies caused while, putting the blame squarely where these twits feel it belongs.
On all the drug store truck driving men who've destroyed the planet by not living in caves, wearing bark for clothes and eating nuts and berries like they're supposed to.