The people next door are at it again, making trouble in our backyard. If something's not done quickly, they may even claim to have invented the pavlova
15/11/2009
Bangkok Post
Once again Thailand is having a spat with one of its neighbours. This happens on a regular basis and in a clockwise direction, which is a very civilised way of doing things. Thailand will have a fight with Malaysia over its harbouring of southern Muslim terrorists, then it's Burma's turn - usually about some human rights atrocity, the type they have become so good at.
Once that dies down the Laotians are up in arms over a disparaging remark a Thai pop star has made about Vientiane girls, then we start shooting impoverished Cambodian soldiers in the name of a stone temple perched on a cliff. That completes the cycle, and we're back at Malaysia again.
This week we're at the throats of Phnom Penh because Cambodian oojara stirrer Hun Sen has teamed up with his Thai equivalent to poke and prod our Abhisit. Leave him alone, I say! It reminds me of my days as a little boy at Sunnybank State School in Brisbane, Australia, when evil blinking Mark Racey (he had a facial tic) and local buffoon Ronald Finlay used to bash me up simply because I came first in class.
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