Yes I'm afraid our fire in the belly, belt 'em up prime minister is becoming a bit of a disappointment.

We need to root out who ever gave him the powder puff, & get him back on track

Yes David, but one swallow does not a summer make! Nor one lone terrorist WW111!

Had one or two of those patrons been armed and trained in the use of small arms, the only one needing to die at that time would have been the Muslim miscreant.

It's all well and fine for politicians to come down hard on weapons, and too easy when you're surrounded by the things 24/7, and in the hands of skilled marksmen.

As always in politics, the we usually means everybody else!
The sacrificial lambs and pawns, able to be able to armed in a heartbeat and rushed into harms way.

The mighty USA was beaten into cutting and running by a ragtag army funded by drugs and charity.

They dropped more bombs on Cambodia during the so called Vietnam campaign, than were dropped during WW11, and they sacrificed more young lives, than they spent during the European and Pacific campaigns!

White house staffers and or Presidents make notoriously inept generals!
And a power hungry Nixon was not only the most inept, but as history reveals, also corrupt!

And they tried to contain their war below a certain parallel, hoping not to involve the Chinese? Such was the fear of communism!

Your point about a state is well made, and given the resources they've acquired, are probably better funded than Charlie!

For mine, these local Muslim miscreants ought to be allowed to leave; never ever to return.
Simpy preventing their exodus is going to increase the rage and the compulsion to act!

And as long as the pollies are safe behind their private wall of steel, there's likely not to be something more pragmatic by way of response!

If the mistakes made en masse in Vietnam taught us one thing, they taught us there's no way to fight a limited war, and nor can the enemy be bombed out of existence.

You need boots on the ground, and fight on until certain objectives are taken and held; (Hanoi/Berlin) and the enemy thoroughly defeated; their land/gains forfeit and or occupied!
Rhrosty.

Well, it's finally happened, I actually agree with most of Singer's arguments in this article, this is another phase in a 1400 year war against Western civilisation.
What else could the PM say, other than the usual multi-culti platitudes? Some European politicians will openly face facts, but not, so far, here in Australia.

The term 'lone wolf' is pure sophistry, do terrorists have to be financial card-carrying members of a recognised terrorist organisation before they're officially classed as terrorists?

'The bogeyman in the Lindt Chocolat café won't go away because Australia's Prime Minister wants to put the term "Islamic State" out of sight and out of mind.'

so true David. Many 'progressives' insist this was a surprise. How utterly naive and stupid. Look at France, England, Switzerland, Italy, USA, Canada etc etc. All the pollies come out with the same garbage. One day they will see that they are the ones mentally challenged simply because the idiotic dogma of the progressives that all cultures and idologies are equal is fantasy. The hatred of Christianity and the family unit by regressives outweighs any commonsense when it comes to immigration. So ironic that this terrorist in Martin place had received a letter of commendation from the State Labour leader and yet like many of our regressive olo commentators showed a pathological hatred of Abbott.

Rhosty,

I am a trained marksman with rifle, pistol and machine carbine and had I been in the café and armed I would not have fired at Monis as he was carrying a backpack and may have been wired to cause an explosion.
The police did the right thing by not shooting him; it's easy enough to be wise after the event and the same situation will be played out again.
In fact the way he showed himself plainly through the windows indicated that either he was very careless or he was a human bomb daring the police to risk a shot.

It looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks.... What's wrong with our politicians? Abbot and crew have been quite a disappointment. Pandering to they 'luvvies' will never buy him votes, just more hatred, reminiscent of some here on this blog in the past, no matter the facts, just maintain the sickening illogical hate.