Well-written and interesting article.

Now let us have another one.

"It is time to learn the lessons from the BBQ's black box."

Which are?

BBQ knobs? What a silly article, blaming us for Islamic barbarism. The "US and its allies including Australia" will do what they can to protect the West; that's us, pal.

Just think. This bloke was a multiculturalism commissioner in Australia!

The excuse making Author appears to be blaming the west for every middle east problem, in an exercise of blame shifting on a grand scale!
Yes we have tried to help where it served our interests, and in the pursuit of democracy, or endless futility?

But typically of stone age people with a stone age mentality, the minute you get rid of one tyrant they replace him with another, as happened in Egypt or Iraq; and then like the author they have the unmitigated hide to blame us for too much help or not enough.

If the author could be honest he would sheet home the blame where it lays, with themselves and their so called culture.

Which has been murderously combative with the advent of an eye for an eye sectarian Islam!

I'd like to know which part of western aid created ritual beheadings, crucifictions, rape, child brides and sexual slavery. All alive and well in middle eastern "CULTURE"for interminable centuries!

Down to me and my druthers I'd turn the desert sands into a sea of molten glass!

Surgically removing the whole rotten mess in the same way a clinical surgeon would remove a malignant tumour; taking enough of the surrounding tissue to be sure that it had no chance of returning and re infecting the patient!?
Rhrosty.

Yep...the truth as it is...America is owned and operated by cow boys, peopled by blind nationalists, and fuelled by overproof testosterone. It is safe to say that wars waged on this base will be equally senseless....

Rhrosty. You have hit the proverbial 'nail on the head' with each and every fallacious notion proposed by the author. Your idea of turning the surrounding deserts into glass has much merit. Perhaps the power required could be provided by numberless Chinese soar cells.
Quite a silly, supremely simplistic article. ttbn, like me, shudders to think that this bloke is a 'multicultural commissioner'. What more could we expect. I wonder if he has duel nationality?

This author says succinctly what i have been
feeling about the middle for decades.
I thank and enciurage him to srticulate these
views - judging by the other commentary it will
be wasted on many but truth will win through
one day