aquascoot wrote on Sep 11^th, 2014 at 8:29pm:


True, Aquascoot. We could always send in the Light Horse Brigade.

Problem is, there’s a lot more of them than there are of us.

red baron wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 10:21am:


I understood what you meant, Red. Vietnam, Korea and the Berlin Wall were the exceptions in the Cold War as they were actual wars (or, in the case of Berlin, very nearly a nuclear war).

The rest of the world went with either superpower without, in most cases, an actual fight. Like other colonies, Middle Eastern states went straight from their former colonial masters to Uncle or Russia.

The Arab Spring was the natural consequence of the end of the Cold War. Without well-organised puppet governments in countries like Egypt, Lybia and Tunisia, their populations voted with their own feet (or weapons). Either way, they got to vote for the first time.

Trying to understand local civil wars and conflicts without an understanding of the bigger picture will lead to problems. Likewise, describing local conflicts solely in reference to universal signifiers like the Domino Theory or the Clash of Civilizations is equally flawed.

15.31, AEST.

BULLSHIT.

The Abbott government is playing the electorate for fools. They’re doing the old security agenda shift to take the heat off their mismanagement of domestic issues.

What other PM goes to TV to announce a security upgrade?

What other PM can’t even specify why our security status is being raised?

The Abbott security game, like Thatcher’s Faulkland war,  is a complete crock - but this time, there’s not even a clear threat. We’re not at war, no one has attacked, and it’s all BULLSHIT.

This is so easy to see, I’m.surprised even the Bolt crowd doesn’t see through it.

No I’m not. They started it.

And Red Baron is the biggest cheerleader. No need to be unduly alarmed indeed. Don’t panic.

Alarmed about what?

Well Karnal, if 60 well trained Jihadists infiltrated my Country, people have been trained keenly in the art of terrorism, I would be scared sh.tless of what trouble they would cook up once they got back home from their 'big adventure'. The fact is they have.

Why the hell they let those bastards back into Australia I don't know. Perhaps the laws hadn't been passed that allowed the Government to prevent them from re-entering Australia.

But re-enter they have and everything I have ever been trained for in the military and even the Police for that matter has a big red warning light going off.

Anyone who doesn't think that these Jihadists roaming around here, with their Jihadists masters calling the moves, are not a threat is not living in the real world.

The A.S.I.O. boss had every right to raise the threat level.

What has happened is like letting 60 murderers back into the Country and setting them free. Unbelievable madness in letting them back in, now the Country faces a real and serious threat from them.

PS I suppose the terrorist bombings in London were bullsh.too Karnal, that is of course, until they happened.
9/11 a blush.t exercise too. After all it couldn't happen in America...that is until it did.

Never mind the 'if' 'what' and 'but'.

We are dealing with the here and the now. And right now there are 60 trained Jihadists at large in our Country and they represent are real danger, one we have rarely seen this species of here before.

But mark my words we will know all about some of them, sooner rather than later.

Scenario:

You have a beautiful, well tended  garden.

One day you see a family of brown snakes cross from the adjacent bush and take up residence amongst the well tended plants.

Would you

A) Go in and tell the children they need to get out of the house and go exercise in the garden   or:

B) Go and deal with the nest of snakes, ensuring that every last jack one of them was removed from the garden forever

then:

C) Put up barriers around your garden, so that the offending snakes could never re-enter paradise.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 13^th, 2014 at 8:03am:



can on ly imagine what lefties would do with that one???. ..and as for the anything to win a vote mob... wishy washy and the greens  they would march on the prisons and demand release..

or we will obstruct everything this govt tries to do..

No Sir Bobby they need to return them to the Country in which they trained as a Terrorist with papers , marked 'never to return'.

The last I heard from the Government they were tub thumping, saying they would not be re admitted to Australia?

Why were they let back in?

Now we have a "High Level Threat" because our Government were slothful in reacting.

They knew they were coming back, they had bi partisan support to deal with it and they didn't

Abbott and Co and the main reason we are now on high threat level because they failed in their duty to protect the Nation.

No good closing the bloody gate when the enemy is already in the yard.