Why John Howard > George Bush

Its trendy nowadays to visit troops on active duty around holiday time. But at least when the Aus PM visits he brings presents:

To help the troops and others celebrate Christmas, Mr Howard's plane delivered beer donated by two Australian breweries.

Now thats more like it

www.abc.net.au...

In the case of Howard he doesn't have any of the mana that even an inept POTUS does. So he has to take beer along to appease eh.

I originally thought the math symbol in the title was a euphemism for Why John Howard Arselicks George Bush. In which case, as Mark Latham correctly describes, the answer is to get a pat on the head.