Great minds don’t agree on everything

25 March 2009

Tom Switzer
Presenter, ABC Radio National

Spectator Magazine

However sweet the rhetoric, the priorities of Obama and Rudd should differ in Afghanistan, warns Tom Switzer.

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Tom Switzer
Presenter, ABC Radio National
Tom Switzer was a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre until March 2017. He is a presenter on the ABC’s Radio National and a columnist at Fairfax publications.

First published

25 March 2009

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