Teh PM Holds Flame of Freedom High
Howard, Howard govt, Terrorism - - Posted on March, 16 at 8:30 pm by Ken L
But Jesus told them, “The only place a prime minister isn’t honored is in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own house.”
Ain’t that the truth. Here we have a brave PM who risked life and limb to travel to Afghanistan to assess the military situation for himself, confidently anticipating a flurry of headlines and lead nightly news stories, and instead what do we get? Some dickhead with the idiotic name of Santo Santoro confessing to something or other which isn’t exactly clear, except he feels he must Pay a Price.
Fortunately wise heads from other countries can maintain a steadier view of old Oz. They see us clearly and they see us whole, and they like what they see. For example, Melanie Phillips writing in The Spectator [registration required] has explained how we are favoured above all other nations. Her inspiring piece is called ‘The wizards of Oz have got it right’. Such a droll play on words!
According to Melanie:
Coming from Britain to Canberra to interview members of the Australian government is like leaving a fetid malarial swamp to be douched with fresh cold water from a mountain spring.
The ‘douche’ word came to me spontaneously later as I was reading Melanie’s wonderful essay. Anyway why is she so braced by coming to our fair shores?
These guys are so onside in the great fight for civilisation against barbarism that they make ‘Bush’s poodle’ Tony Blair sound like a Harold Pinter wannabe on a bad day in Basra.
I swear I am getting a boner already.
Their scorn for the current British mood of defeatism and appeasement is palpable. What, for example, does the foreign minister, Alexander Downer, think about those in Britain who claim that the Iraq war has made the world a more dangerous place?
‘Their proposition that we should let the extremists win in Iraq and that will reduce terrorism is like saying, let Hitler take France and that will secure things a bit more. Or that if only we hadn’t taken on Hitler he wouldn’t have bombed the East End. It’s a completely fatuous proposition. For the extremists, it’s fantastic that people are saying this - because the logical conclusion is to surrender.’
Oh dear. Lexie proves Godwin’s Law yet again. Fortunately she didn’t end the discussion because she was just getting warmed up telling the people of the Old Country and indeed the world what an admirable race we are.
As for the treasurer, Peter Costello: on the subject of radical Muslims in Australia he’s hardly likely to win the Tories’ Patrick Mercer Memorial Cup for cultural sensitivity:
‘Basically, people who don’t want to be Australians, and they don’t want to live by Australian values and understand them, well, then they can basically clear off.’
‘Kin oath Pete, you tell ‘em! By god this Melanie is making me horny.
And you know what? Not only can we show those wimpy poms a trick or two but we’re better than those loser yanks.
The Australian government understands something that many in the beleaguered administrations of both Blair and Bush (not to mention the British Tories or US Democrats) just don’t get. The Aussies grasp that the free world is under sustained attack from the same enemy on a myriad global fronts; that taking the path of appeasement on any one of these fronts is to undermine that world’s whole defence; and that it is busy undermining itself at every opportunity.
You grasped that, didn’t you? Of course you did. Damn gutless free world … lucky it’s got us around, eh.
Billy Bunter reveals to Melanie a little-known aspect of the War on Terror:
To a Britain which parrots the Islamists’ line that the war in Iraq is, on the contrary, the principal recruiting sergeant for terror, Downer retorts that in Southeast Asia the war in Iraq has produced a decline in support for Islamist extremism and terrorism.
‘Partly this is because the Indonesian government has promoted the notion of moderate Islam. The world’s largest Islamic country and our next-door neighbour is a vigorous democracy, where people are able to dissent from government and form political movements. That’s why I believe that democracy is a very important means of defeating terrorism. The claim that brown guys don’t do democracy is just outrageous. So if you happen to be Asian or Arab you’re supposed to enjoy oppression? Just bring on the evidence!’
You see? The war in Iraq has turned Indonesia into a democracy!! Waddya mean you don’t follow? Are you a thick pommie or something?
And to what do we owe our pre-eminent position in the Free World? Well I reckon you know what’s coming:
Of course, the Aussies’ moral and political clarity springs in large measure from the robustness of John Howard himself. Howard’s political genius - his Liberal party has won three general elections on the trot - derives from his extraordinary ability to articulate the values and aspirations of Middle Australia.
We can excuse the error about the number of election wins, I mean Melanie has demonstrated her unsurpassed acumen in the rest of the article so she can’t be expected to get minor factual details correct. Oh BTW, there’s one more staggering insight (you’ll forgive my emphasis, I don’t want you to miss these awesome truths):
But the big thing that Howard understands is that the war upon civilisation is being waged both from without and from within. He arrived at this view through two seminal events in 2001. The first was 9/11, which he witnessed at first hand since he happened to be in Washington on that day. The second was the hijacking of that year’s anniversary celebration of Australian federation by those perpetrating historical myths to portray Australia as fundamentally illegitimate.
Yeah all you bastards who hijacked our anniversary celebrations in 2001, shame on you. Go perpetrate your historical myths somewhere else. No I can’t quite remember WTF Melanie is on about but this is an account of her visit ‘to interview members of the Australian government’, so obviously it’s soundly based.
The Spectator has a long history as a quality magazine. You can subscribe here for just a pound an issue.
Letters to the editor thanking him/her for a vastly entertaining bit of frabjous bullshit can be sent from here.
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March 16th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Did Mel mention in her craptacular op-ed piece that Howard and his warmongering brothers are getting whomped in the polls?
March 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
He-Man, Master of the Universe!!!…
I think Melanies been drinking from Enoch Powell’s old boots…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
March 16th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
“I think Melanies been drinking from Enoch Powell’s old boots…”
Now that’s fucking funny.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Honestly, does every single wingnut piece deserve a breathless rebuttal? Including ones we wouldn’t even have known about, and can’t read because of the registration requirements?
March 16th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Oh puke. If it wasn’t serious you’d be rolling on the floor. Now, maybe my perceptions are distorted, but did we get about 90 second of Santoro on the news vs about 3 minutes of Our Glorious and Steel-Backboned Leader addressing the troops In Our Name ™? There certainly were 3 separate clips, it was like a recurring nightmare - just when you thought the Fair and Balanced (tM) ABC had finished, they put the little fukcer on again.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I’d like to test Godwin’s Law, by mentioning a quote from John Ralston Saul:
Oh my, it looks like I lose.
March 17th, 2007 at 12:07 am
‘Every single wingnut piece’ SJ? And the last one I ‘rebutted breathlessly’ was when exactly?
March 17th, 2007 at 2:49 am
‘Their proposition that we should let the extremists win in Iraq and that will reduce terrorism is like saying, let Hitler take France and that will secure things a bit more. Or that if only we hadn’t taken on Hitler he wouldn’t have bombed the East End. It’s a completely fatuous proposition. For the extremists, it’s fantastic that people are saying this - because the logical conclusion is to surrender.’
True.
And, we’re not trying to make the world “safer”, we’re trying to smash terrorists and destroy states that back them. We’re attempting to make the world as unsafe for them as is humanly possible.
March 17th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Thanx Ken, I had to laugh the whole way through your piece. If only JH would stand for election in GB, she could at least vote for him, Australia’s male Maggie.
Dave,
“And, we’re not trying to make the world “safer”, we’re trying to smash terrorists and destroy states that back them.”
Have you counted the score lately? For how many deaths of innocent civilians the COW is responsible over the last 6 years compared with the number of terror attack victims?
March 17th, 2007 at 6:14 am
“Have you counted the score lately?”
Yeah, there’s a ton of dead terrorists that used to be alive, and two goverments that used to support said terrorists have taken a severe beating.
March 17th, 2007 at 6:55 am
janette collects these highly intelligent THINK pieces for john and pastes them into a little scrapbook for him to pore over on those long, lonely retirement nights beginning later this year. When he ponders, “I can’t think WHY sending Australians to kills thousands of Iraqis wasn’t popular”, and “I’m darned if I can see why pushing thousands of workers into poverty while giving grants to millionaires to build nuclear plants wasn’t a good move”, he can turn to it for comfort.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:14 am
“For how many deaths of innocent civilians the COW is responsible over the last 6 years compared with the number of terror attack victims?”
As if our goal was to suffer MORE civilian casualties than the enemy.
These leftys are a hoot.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Err, Dave -
In New York on September 11 2001, about 3000 innocent civilians were killed by terrorists. Since the invasion of Iraq, the number of innocent civilians killed in Iraq is AT LEAST 60,000 (US Government estimate) - last year a study be the Lancet Journal found that it was 600,000. From what I recall the COW leaders repeatedly saying, the civilian population of Iraq is not “the enemy” - or do you disagree with Bush/Blair/Howard?
In addition, the number of terrorist incidents worldwide has actually increased dramatically since the COW went into Iraq.
What were we trying to do again?
March 17th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
As if our goal was to suffer MORE civilian casualties than the enemy.
Dave, I like your way of thinking. Picture the following scenario: A couple of bad guys (terrorists) kill some members of a policeman’s family. In their attempt to escape they take 20 hostages (Afghani & Iraqi civilians. The cops (US/OZ troops) rock up and in the process to arrest/kill the bad guys, the coppers slay also half the hostages. Job well done because the goal was to reduce the threat to the coppers families and that was achieved. Bravo. Who cares about the dead hostages families, its our loved ones/skin color that is important to protect and revenge.
But just in case you’d like to do some simple math:
Terrorists kill 3′000 innocent civilians on 11th Sep
US/GB/OZ kill at least 60′000 innocent civilians in Iraq alone in the following 6 years
60′000 is 20 times greater than 3′000 >>> US/GB/OZ are 20 times greater terrorists
Kids in grade 3 can figure that one out, lefties or not.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
No worries Juan Moment!
I reckon the current exchange rate of brown non-Christians to Americans is about 50:1. As you can see Dave’s mob have a good margin to make up.
March 17th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
How very Roman Empire of them.
March 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Hey Ken,I heared that journo young Melanie being interviewed A.B.C. last week (forget which station maybe p.m.?)She is a marriage made in heaven for our Lord Downer make no mistake.Although she was slightly more masculin than our Dolly,from her accent her breeding credentials were impeccable.
I must say though Ken,she had the opposite effect on me,my boner went flaccid when I heared her speak.
March 17th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
“In New York on September 11 2001, about 3000 innocent civilians were killed by terrorists. Since the invasion of Iraq, the number of innocent civilians killed in Iraq is AT LEAST 60,000″
We sure don’t want it to be the other way around.
Get a clue…you don’t get extra brownie points for losing more civilians than the countries you’re fighting against.
Leftist = dumb as a stump.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Well, Dave, I guess the only snag to your theory is that Iraq wasn’t even involved in 9/11.
Still, I suppose to you, all ragheads and Islamic people are pretty much the same. Might as well exterminate the lot.
Mind you, it was tried once before with a different people and known as the Final Solution. Didn’t work then either.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Yeah Dave,
The INCREASE in terrorist incidents since the invasion of Iraq proves exactly how well the current strategy of killing heaps of Iraqi civilians is working.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
The MASSIVE increase in terrorist incidents since the Iraq invasion. See the top of the following page for an abstract graphic depiction.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/08/america-iraq-war-7x-more-worldwide-terror/
March 17th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
See that Dave? The rate of terrorist incidents is now 7 times what it was before we invaded Iraq. Bet we all feel safer now!
Right wingers - thick as two short planks, and this just proves it.
March 17th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
“The rate of terrorist incidents is now 7 times what it was before we invaded Iraq.”
7 fold increase inside Afghanistan and Iraq, maybe. BFD. If the Shiites want to blow up the Sunnis…I’m not that worried about it.
OTOH, The rate of dead (and captured) Baathists, Talibaners, and terrorists is hundreds of times higher (at least) than what it was before we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Right wingers - thick as two short planks, and this just proves it.”
Not thick at all. I want my government to kill (or capture if they must) thousands of terrorists, Baathists, and Talibaners.
And by God, they did. I got what I wanted.
March 18th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Dead Muslim = Terrorist
Victory is assured!
March 18th, 2007 at 6:09 am
“Dead Muslim = Terrorist”
No stupider than most things you leftys propose.
March 18th, 2007 at 11:11 am
And certainly no smarter.
March 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
For god’s sake … why do people indulge this Johnny One-note wanker?
March 18th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Ken,it was a while before I was on to him.He is a troll nothing else,and quite frankly he is stupid.I can tell from his comments he is probably about twenty and lifts his replies to anything intelligent straight out of wikipedia or sim.I have read a few of his comments on other blogs,and the song remains the same, he is a no nothing dick head.I am not going to directly reply to any more of his facile comments.
March 18th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
that should read know nothing,before he starts.
March 18th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
1) was having fun
2) useful for making points & posting links…:)
3) pity
March 18th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Yeah OK nasking and I don’t want to give the misleading impression that I think it’s a big deal. But turds like these who get off on revenge killings are either mentally unstable or really nasty pieces of work. I bet they watch the Saddam execution several times a week and the box of tissues isn’t for wiping away tears.
Every time they see a comment that dignifies their filth with a response, they howl with glee at the way they’ve made those Australian lefty fucktards dance to their tune once again. One moron boasted about the way his solo intellectual brilliance was keeping ‘at bay’ the entire horde of cretinous leftoids over at Tim’s Rupert blog.
I think we have a solemn duty not to do anything that makes miserable creatures like these feel good about themselves. It’s bad enough having to concede that they’re probably members of the same species as us.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
[...] Ken L at Surfdom rejoices that over in the mother country there are a few perceptive souls who appreciate our leaders for the men of steel that they are, even if their own constituents don’t appreciate them. Melanie Phillips of Spectator is a case in point, and Ken basks in the reflected glow of her praise for Howard, Downer and Costello. [...]