Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 16
th, 2015 at 6:14am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 16
th, 2015 at 5:16am:
Malcolm is sticking steadfastly to his "political solution" line and in doing so, is coming across more and more like those who advocated appeasement prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Maybe it'll take an attack on a similar scale to that which occurred in Paris for Turnbull to see the folly of his thinking. He seems to have forgotten the edict given by ISIS since day one - CONVERT OR DIE. They aren't interested in a political solution. Not in the least and the only way to defeat them will be militarily. Tony foresaw this, but was shouted down by the do-gooders for being racist and alarmist. Those same people now have bloodied egg on their faces.
Excellent Editorial, armchair.
You've got your finger on the pulse. You obviously don't take your authority from The Guardian or the ABC National Broadcaster.
Were there any streams of refugees fleeing Syria under the Assad regime?
Answer: No.
Putin is working on militarily defeating those groups which have created this diaspora of refugees from Syria. Police State dictatorships are the only political system that Muslims respect and understand. None of your namby-pamby, touchy-feely liberal democracies for them, thank you very much.
The happiest dogs are those with strict masters. It's the same with horses, as aquascoot will tell you.
herbert , i was thinking about this in horse terms yesterday.
Here on planet earth, which i call "reality", the laws of nature apply.
Now the alpha horse gets the very best of the pasture.(of the resources).
So if we see oil as a resource,then the natural state is that the alpha gets the oil.
So the USA and russia are behaving quite correctly and in accordance with natural laws by taking the oil.
Now if the alpha is feasting on his resources and some runty little flea infested brunby that was there first, grabs some barbed wire and comes and chucks it at the big stallion what does he do?
Do you really think he should just retreat?

He will give that runt the asssss-whipping of its life.
he will chase that horse from sight , over the hills and it wont show its face again.
Now to get to australia.
in a herd of maybe 40 horse, we are not the alpha. we might be the number 15 horse or there abouts.
Do we get involved in chasing off this runt who attacked the natural order of things and tried to destroy the harmony of the pasture.
unlikely.
the lead stallion (USA) and the lead mare (Mother Russia) (who have been estranged but are now in therapy) will do that for us.
we just go on munching away, we go up to the lead stallion (USA) and we probably groom him a bit....you see this with the higher horses, they will groom the lead horse, gentley nibble on his neck (its very sweet).
anyway, thats how i would call it.
if some of the horses (horses 5,6,7) say( germany, england and france) want to befriend the runts and let them into their pasture, they are being most foolish.
the alpha wont like it, the runts will trash the place and try to dominate them.
what we should do is let them behave in a weak way. as they fall down the peck order, we will rise and get better resources.
If they arent interested in defending themselves, probably best their genes were removed from the herd or the whole herd will become extinct.