It is difficult to
imagine how our $20 billion new generation F-35 joint strike fighter
will combat the new generation of war games. China may have stolen the
plans but they will be of little use because current rules of engagement
involve cyber warfare, IEDs, suicide bombers, guerrilla door-to-door warfare,
kidnappings, and terrorist attacks. None of which has a role for the F-35.
Vaporising every Islamic
Jihadist training facility on the planet can be achieved with drones, but there
is no will for that, considering the US already has 4,000 troops assisting with
Ebola in the same region as Boko Haram fighters remain free to
murder thousands in the pursuit of their competitive brand of Jihad.
It’s doubtful the West has
anticipated the kind of war that has already started. Don't
discount suicide bombers in the channel tunnel, major shopping centres and
underground rail. Toy drones delivering explosives to airports or aircraft on
final approach, reservoirs, major sporting venues, houses of parliament,
schools, rail lines carrying peak traffic over bridges, buses and
shipping, not to mention cyber attacks on electricity grids, transport and
phone networks.
Does anyone really believe
radical Islamists are not already planning these attacks?
We are fighting a pointless undeclared war raining bombs on utes in
Iraq while assiduously denying it has anything to do with Islam. The Islamic
Jihadists might want to disagree with that assumption.
Forget media rhetoric... we are losing this war!
Since 1901, the Australian Constitution has not required a sitting
government to gain parliamentary approval for the decision to deploy forces
overseas or, in the rare cases that it has occurred, to declare war via the Governor
General.
Convention requires a declaration of war be brought before the
Parliament at the earliest opportunity but what does “convention” mean? It
meant little in 1975!
It’s constitutionally problematic whether an Australian Prime Minister
could declare war on Islamic Jihad, which has no discernible nationhood,
despite the fact that Islamic Jihad has declared war on the West and that
Australia is currently bombing the crap out of Islamic
Jihadist installations.
But it’s an undeclared war we can never
win while Western leaders refuse to identify, let alone deal with, the
threat.
A declaration of war would more than likely require a UN Security
Council resolution, which won’t happen, and Australia would not act alone
without NATO involvement which includes the soft Left Merkel, Obama and
Hollande. It would also need the executive approval of Obama, and that
certainly won’t happen if such a resolution included terms like “Islamic Jihad”
or, as he puts it, “workplace violence”.
There have been attempts since 1985 by the Australian Democrats, and
more recently by the Australian Greens, to remove the unilateral power of the
government to commit Australia to war which would, as a matter of course,
enable emergency powers.
So, let’s put a line through the possibility of a declaration of war.
Emergency powers could be sought by Abbott but the ALP, Greens and much of the
cross bench would never agree to any Prime Minister having such power, much
less agreeing to Tony Abbott acquiring it.
But, here’s what CAN actually happen: Abbott can introduce into the
House exceptional anti-terror legislation. “Exceptional” in that it equates to
current public sentiment, which right now is extremely hostile to Islamic
Jihad. Internal polling would show the extent of that hostility.
The Bills would of course be rejected in the Senate twice, thereby
giving Abbott the trigger for a double dissolution. The inability to cater for
the safety of the nation would be a compelling message to take to the hustings
and very few would see the hapless union thug, Bill Shorten, as an alternative
prime minister in a proper election, particularly in a time of crisis.
Providing the proposed anti-terror legislation was within the bounds of
reasonableness, Abbott would almost certainly win, achieving a clean-out of the
current obstructionist Senate yobbos. Effective measures to deal with the
Islamic Jihadist threat would then be available to the Government.
But there is one impediment to that scenario; Abbott must first visit a
speech therapist to learn how to mouth the word Islam.
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