GUERILLAS IN THE MISSED

The war on terrorism is really over. What we have now is a war on brigands and thugs, pirates and paedophiles who lay claim to affiliation with Al Queda and ISIL in the same way that Sunni’s are affiliated with Shiite.
The war in Afghanistan is not a war against terrorism unless you believe that terrorism is akin to gang warfare. Each group is as corrupt as each other, not even the Afghan government can lay claim to be honest and without corruption. Our troops are fighting, and dying, to protect one group of hoods and thugs against an opposing gang of crooks. Drug Lords rule and we aid and abet them.

The equivalent in Australia would be Malcolm Turnbull sending in the Police against the Bandido’s whilst employing Hells Angels for Diplomatic Security. Even the Afghan Police shoot us. We went into Iraq (which is still in a state of quasi civil war) and Afghanistan at the behest of the United States. Even they believe now that they really f@$^* it all up but can’t get out of it to save face. The Astonisher will predict now that after western forces leave within 1-2 years the Taliban will be back in power, stronger and more well armed, thanks to Iran and Syria, and will again begin to threaten the safety and security of other countries.

The Astonisher will also predict that Pakistan will be close allies to the Taliban led Afghan Government just to spite India and that leaves us with the potential of Radical Islam sending whole countries to Paradise with a big Nuclear Bang. If you think North Korea is crazy wait till you see what the Taliban gets up to once in power.

How many billions have we spent fighting for these c*^%# when we could have put it into our health system, how many trillions will America spend on armaments and explosive drones while millions of their own citizens live in abject poverty.

The war on terror was a political construct, revenge for 9/11 used as an excuse to enforce America’s power over that part of the world. The biggest Army in the world cannot and will never win Afghanistan or any other war it sticks its nose into while the citizens of the country they invade don’t want them there. The war on terror has done more for the military-industrial complex of America, Russia and England, France, and maybe even China for all we know.

It’s Australia’s iron ore and uranium that is helping them to construct weapons of terror, that when in the hands of the terrorists (which is about as easy for them as going to the local Market) will be turned against us.

The war on terrorism is over. Now it is the Western World just profiting from our own naivity and gullibility that is keeping it going. Two words sum it all up ‘who benefits?’

YOU CAN’T GET TO THE CENTRE FROM THE LEFT

The Green Party without Bob Brown have belatedly made the decision to move towards being a more traditional political animal. There is a real desire in  some quarters of the party to soften the general stance taken by the vegan lobby ‘that anything with eyes should not be eaten or anything stolen from anything with eyes or anything made from anything stolen from anything with eyes’.  In other words you cannot eat anything that belonged to something else. If that were the case all vegans, hopefully, would starve to death. Have they forgotten that God made everything so to eat anything is stealing from God? Lets not get into the area of talking to plants in this story.
Anyway there are a few sensible greens that don’t do un-natural things with knotholes in trees who believe that to be a political force they must act like politicians and not like radical loonies. They should move away from the specific of whether trees should wear jumpers in winter or whether animal rights should be enshrined in our Constitution.
The Greens should move away from wanting a democratic election of animals for parliament or even the United Nations for that matter. Note that humans cannot, should not nor believe they know what animals want, that’s up to P.E.T.A and  the ‘whisperers’ who believe they are somewhere in between animal, vegetable and mineral. I believe we should challenge the idea that P.E.T.A knows what a prawn is thinking.
We believe the Greens should have a serious and meaningful connection to and dialogue with farmers and growers about what both sides believe is best for the country, not just listen to the screaming ‘Greenies’ whose only claim to fame is that they grow tomato’s on the balcony of their home unit in Lygon Street.
Growers are unlikely to do anything that would compromise the integrity of the land on which their livlihood depends as farmers are highly unlikely to abuse the animals they breed and feed and care for either for their fleece or their meat or their companionship. It would be in the best interest of the Greens ‘who oppose corporate greed’ just as vehemently as most people who work the land to use this as a common starting point. It is not farmers or growers but beancounters and ccorporate leaders that are raping the country, blame the banks not the bush. If you think there is a problem prying kiddy fiddlers away from children just try seperating management from their pay bonus.
The Greens should move towards more general policies like mining taxes to restore the earth after mining and sustainable agriculture to ease the demand on the need for more water and not just insist we lock it all up in the ground to lay fallow for at least the next two centuries.
The Greens have in the last few years managed very effectively to be the tail that wags the dog. Not even the Independents, ‘the Cracked Centre’, can make a dint in their popularity. Now we might add the disenchanted Liberals and Labor electorate to swing their vote to the Greens as they move to the centre-left of politics where traditionally the Labor Party used to hold the vote.
But the Greens will never be government unless they can capture that middle ground where the majority of sensible Australians are to be found. Where common sense and not a Nanny State becomes the law where, like Germany, the individual has ultimate responsibility for their own lives and the State, except for providing essential services that the electors ask for should just stuff off and leave us alone.

GREENS MIGHT BE VESUVIANS FOR ALL I CARE BUT IF AUSTRALIA BECOMES A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF THEM THEN THEY HAVE MY VOTE.