I Love The Aussies

Aside from having the sense to keep their government in conservative hands, here's another reason:

Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.

The incident took place before Iran successfully seized fifteen British sailors and Marines in March. ...

When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt. It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.

The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".

The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".

Perhaps Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee's encounter with that mugger (wherein the youngster pulls a switchblade on Mick and Linda Kozlowski, and Mick chuckles, whips out his own cutlery and exclaims, "That's not a knife; THIS is a knife!") is more than just apocryphal.

I hope and pray it's contagious as well.

[h/t: The Tank]