Our thoughts are with Indonesia today as it reels in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the capital, Jakarta.
Indonesian authorities acted swiftly and professionally during the crisis, minimising casualties and neutralising threats as they appeared. The latest reports say that seven people died in yesterday’s attacks, five of them the terrorists themselves.
But while the attacks are tragic, they are not surprising. “There has been an expectation that an attack would take place in our part of the world at some time,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. “Experts have been expecting some type of attack at some point.”
We are not security experts, but we have also been expecting some type of attack at some point. Yesterday’s attacks targeted buildings and businesses frequented by Westerners — and it is entirely possible Australia will at some point have to confront such a threat. Why? Our continued military intervention in the Middle East makes us a target. Don’t take our word for it — both the current head of the CIA and the former head of MI5 have directly, explicitly stated that Western military interventions undertaken as part of the War on Terror create terrorists. So Liberal backbencher Kevin Andrews’ suggestion yesterday that we commit even more soldiers to the region — particularly as ground troops — could have the effect of increasing that risk.
A truth stated with which no-one possessing half a brain could disagree.
This necessarily excludes Kevin “andrews” Android,Nikolic and the Onion Eater.
Ghoulie Andrews was also a member of the government that took us into Iraq as part of Bush’s “Coalition of the Shilling” – and behind that “Muslim terrorist/Haneef” cock-up, with Keelty.
Why does every one who writes about this say our thoughts are with Jakarta? Mine aren’t. My thoughts are with the rancid western hypocrisy over Indonesia and the ongoing genocide in West Papua that is driven by the Australian trained terrorism squad to murder and destroy people while we remain silent.
3 hours of mayhem scream out the headlines, what about 50 years of mayhem done by Indonesia against communists, East Timor, Aceh, Ambon province, West Papua and shi”ite muslims.
Anyone would think Indonesia was some spotlessly non-violent place – 7 killed and 5 of them the attackers killed by the Australian trained gangsters.
Perhaps one day we might see a headline like THE WEST HAVE INFLICTED A CENTURY OF PAIN ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA WITH MILLIONS SLAUGHTERED.
“Marilyn Shepherd” – I agree. When one looks at the billions (probably trillions) of dollars spent trying to combat terrorism, without much success to date, surely this money could be better targeted. I was just reading the other day that since 1970, 3,521 Americans have died from terror attacks. Simultaneously, in 2015 alone, 8,512 Americans have died as a result of gun violence. Hello! Bluntly, I am sick to death of every terror attack making front page news and hogging the TV. There are plenty of other atrocities happening in the world at the moment that deserve the same, if not more coverage.
We get those headlines all the time Marilyn. Leftie activists have continually ascribed victims of the centuries old war between Sunnis an Shiites to the west.
We all understand that there is a left activist view that every mishap and crime committed anywhere in the world since Jesus was crucified was organised by agents of the military industrial establishment of the West.
Hey we have many “evil corporation” movies in recent times to prove it.