Clearly Nick, the answer is simple...
We're good and the Nips were evil.
See my little Aussie friend, the silly little yellow monkies didn't like it that we cut off their oil supply on the virge on their imperial expansion.
Whereas the U.S. cannot abide by a disruption in our access to mideast oil by letting competitors like France and Russia get all the deals, especially on the virge of our campaign to make the world a safer place for the uber-rich to give lip service to democracy.