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War by democracy : Comments
By Tim Pascoe, published 19/9/2013Declaring war is the most grave action that a nation can undertake. It is therefore necessary to ensure that such deployments are considered.
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Dangerous views, but accurate.
Dangers to War include:
- Referring the war making power to Parliament would remove the historic and manly privilege of declaring war from the PM of the day.
- If Parliament says "No" a PM might forego an inevitable increase in public support OR the opportunity to distract the electorate from a PM's other failings
- Parliament may vote "No" because it doesn't GET IT that most of Australia's wars have been about supporting an ally rather than fending off direct threats to Australia.
- There should be no risk that MPs, directly sensitive to public views, should get in the way of the political and economic interests that benefit from war.
Cheers
Pete