Ego driven pollies with delusions of grandeur again supported by the naive and immature in the community who just love to see us as actors on the world stage. We paid off a number of developing countries to buy their vote and now seek to take moral high ground in order to lecture to the rest of the world about right and wrong.

We are a minute player in world affairs who, like angry adolescent, needs to be recognised and feted simply for being us. The pollies love it. Junket trips, mixing with the big boys and getting those photo ops which make us all look so good to the rest of the world.

Maybe Bob Carr or Kevin Rudd can represent us and single handedly prevent WW3 save the worrld!

While Australia remains a sycophantic pawn of the U.S., our role in the U.N. will be a non-event.

I mean, Australia is already in the Israeli-cheer-squad and is encouraging the IDF to bomb-bomb-bomb because, as we all know, their five killed is a far greater disaster than that of the 140 Gazans including many women and children.

Australia once stood for something. It is now an American suck-hole!

140 Gazans including many women and children.
David G,
Don't tell us the obvious, tell the families of the bombers to stop & Israel will stop.
You can't expect Israel t just sit back & let itself get bombed by fruitcake Palestinians & do nothing ? If Palestinians tolerate bombing Israelis then they also have to tolerate reprisal.
Where is the complexity ?

This from a mind that actually lectures our gullible uni students.

Really, until we had got those rose coloured glasses surgically removed from some ladies, they should have been kept bare foot & pregnant, behind a kitchen sink. At least there they just might be able to effectively care for a family, rather than go tilting at windmills, trying to care for the whole world.

I suppose I could be wrong. It could just be a nice soft cop, paying very good money, & easier than actually doing something useful.

Hasbeen wrote:

>>This from a mind that actually lectures our gullible uni students.>>

LOL

Australian academe is riddled with these types and they're not all ladies you misogynist you ;-)

Individual, you are a strange individual. Perhaps you don't know that the Palestinians are under either Israeli blockade or occupation and have been since 1948. This means that many people who live there have never known freedom. Never.

Now obviously you don't care because you have freedom. But if the German/Japanese try for world domination had succeeded, you would have been under their occupation since 1945.

You probably would sing a very different tune had that happened. And you would've encouraged Australian freedom fighters to do what they could to stop the German/Japanese occupation, wouldn't you?

Put your brain into gear for a change, man.