Another Bombing

I haven't posted about the latest demonstration that we're winning the war on Turr®, because Sarah has said everything I want to say far more eloquently and because it makes me angry when I think about how our asshole of a PM's brilliant policy re: Iraq is measured by a godawful pile of corpses. This is what we wanted, I hope it meets everyone's expectations. This is the face of victory.

Australians think terrorism is like the weather. Terrorists scream at us that they're trying to kill us because we invade Muslim countries and kill their inhabitants for no good reason and John Howards argues with them about their motivations. "I kill you all becaus of Iraq!!" "No no, you don't mean that, you're just saying that as an excuse to kill for no reason." A look at the letters page of any newspaper will tell you that apparently being 'strong' and 'positive' is enough protection against explosively projected ball bearings.

As usual a look to history indicates things will only get worse. When terrorists initiate a campaign against a country to achieve a political objective they always begin by targetting the country outside its borders. The first IRA bombing were carried out in Ireland. The first Hizbollah bombings were carried out in Lebanon and the first PLO bombings were carried out in the occupied territories. Attacks on the target's home soil took place after the initial attacks failed to make an impression. Our government is already telling us that a terrorist attack in Australia is 'inevitable' yet it wasn't inevitable in the 1990's when we intervened in East Timor. Our government is basically saying that people are going to try to kill us because of policies a majority of Australians don't support and have resulted in nothing but a mountain of dead bodies. They aren't going to change these policies and, by the way, they can't protect us from their inevitable consequences. Sorry, thanks for the armoured limo and bodyguards.

All the terrorists trying to kill us now, do you think they will be more or less dangerous than the ones we're creating in Iraq and Afghanistan right now?