Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

Today another young Australian was killed in Afghanistan - all in the service of "A big right wing war monger". I am sure you know who I mean.

And Julia comes out and says this:

"Today I am immeasurably sad but I am certainly very determined to see the mission through, it’s a hard mission and I'm not underestimating the cost. I understand the cost. We're talking about the loss of a very brave, very young man today. Jamie was 21 years old. So I understand the cost but I also understand the importance of this mission."

Bullshit.

What you believe dear leader is what your puppeteers in the US military want you to believe - with some additional stroking and smooching by our completely subservient defence hierarchy. For decades, Labor and Liberal politicians have been dazzled by the shiny hardware and forgotten to ask the hard questions. It has always been thus.

It is clear to most of the rest of us that your Government has "no interest" and "no capability" to take a modern world view of our national and regional interest and to decide for ourselves what is and what isn't an appropriate adventure for our military. You seem to think the "Kool Aid" provided by the US is just right for us.

Well it isn’t. It never has been and it never will be. Little Johnny juiced up on it and now your job is to get us out of there - before any more of our young boys are killed and maimed.

In case you haven't noticed, there is a bit of a revolution happening in the Arab World - as a direct result of their leaders’ 30 plus year’s worth of US "Kool Aid" consumption.

It might be worth paying a bit of attention to that - and getting your Foreign Minister to brief you on the *big picture* consequences.