Flashback to 1975

Green MP has called for New Zealand to pay reparations to East Timor as Australia and the United States stood by and did not get involved in preventing Indonesias invasion in 1975.

Flashback to 1975:

Portugal had a coup by Socialist Military Commanders last year who have granted independence to all it's colonies, except Macau. The Communist Fretilin are taking control of East Timor and is aligned to the Soviet Union. East Timor looks set to become a strategic threat to Indonesia and Australia the same way Cuba is a threat to the United States.

But then Indonesia, which is allied to the United States, invades East Timor.

Now, if you were President of the United States, or Prime Minister of Australia do you:

A: Send troops to defend a strategic threat to your interests and risk involving the Soviet Red Army and starting WW3?
B: Breathe a sign of releif that your ally controls what was potentially your biggest strategic threat?

Of course, the UN report doesn't raise the real cause of the invasion - the Portugese abandonment of East Timor in the name of socialist liberation.