I just don't buy this Bruce. I mean our PM and Mr Trump had a very robust exchange of views over asylum seekers very early in Mr Trump's tenure?

Yes we often see eye to eye with the yanks, given what we share or value or owe?

Make no mistake, we are no longer a pet dog rolling over begging for a tummy rub! But rather a willing ally threatened by a common foe, who without question cannot, must not be allowed to prevail!

However, feel free to take yourself and your exemplary diplomatic skills over to ISIS HQ, and regale them for being naughty boys? Maybe they'll quit, just to silence you?

I mean, you'd talk the hind leg off a wooden horse!

If you want to stop a fire, first you must stop adding fuel to the flame!

When you've worked out how we and the west do that? Get back to me with another of your simply splendid, sycophantic, soliloquous solutions?

Can I top that up for you? Milk? Sugar?
Alan B.

When you add more fuel to the fire and you are saying the fire should stop burning, i think that is not going to work.

Another lousy political appraisal by Bruce Haigh.

Lefties seem to dream about destroying Australia's alliance with the USA. Maybe they think that if we were neutral then everybody would just love us and would not want to take our country by force.

News to Bruce. Prior to WW2, Belgium, Norway. Denmark, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Thailand were all neutral. Didn't help them one bit. it just made them easier targets.

Australia has 50 M1A1 tanks and a $570 billion dollar dept. The Philippines has 400 M1A1 tanks and is $120 billion in the black. They should be giving Australia military aid. All the Philippines shows us is that even after 500 years of battling Muslims, Muslims are still a serious and unsolvable problem. You might have deduced from that, Bruce, that the Muslims in Australia will be a serious and unsolvable problem in 500 years time too. One good way to mitigate that is to stop importing Muslims.

The USA is in trouble for the same reason why Australia and Europe is in trouble. Too many people derive their income from the government, either through paid work or social security. One glaring aspect of that problem is that too many people we are importing are nothing but a drain on our finances. Either through lack of job skill, lack of any inclination to work, or because of high incidences of criminal behaviour including terrorism.

The time has come, Bruce, for you to join the ranks of intelligent people. Start demanding that our government look closely at the different groups of people that we are importing and see which group is the most productive and least trouble.

Because if you don't, then sooner or later, things will get so bad that somebody like Gorbachov or Deng Zai Peng will come along and point out the obvious. That the system is corrupt, things are out of control, and the system needs to change.

Bruce, when I attended a symposium over 10 years ago an auditorium full of 'experts' on terror could not agree on what a "terrorist" was, nor define it. This said to me that something was greatly amiss.

Duncan Lewis was either a Captain or just recently promoted to Major when I worked at Campbell Barracks in the early/mid 1980's. I can only draw the conclusion that like most servicemen/women who go on into higher positions in government agencies, some mental faculties are affected for political expediencies and party politic of the day.

Searching the words: " why isil/isis was manufactured to usher in a new world order" yeilds some interesting reading.

Australia, the Australian Intelligence Community (now there's an oxy-moron if ever there was), ASIO, ASIS & the majority of the agencies purporting to act in our national interest(s) are essentially asleep on the job. Mostly due to our reliance on US intelligence. If we could "go it alone" it would most likely yeild better results here on our shores. That we are drip fed via US agencies is the greater worry.

Lego, the Australian taxpayer gives the US government $13 million per day, every week, every month and every year to pay for hardware, spare parts, manuals, and advisers etc from Uncle Sam's Q store. That it can take a minimum of 6 weeks for someone to get parts for a "MkII Thinga ma Jig" says we are not getting value for our money.

There's a simple answer to "separatists" in Australia: let 'em separate. Encourage them. Especially if their religion tells them to hate our guts.

LEGO says
"The Philippines has 400 M1A1 tanks". Where did that come from ? The reality is different :

The T-14 Armata (Russian: Т-14 «Армата») is a Russian main battle tank . The Philippines Army plans to acquire 2,300 T-14s in the period 2015–2020.
The images of the Philippine Army Cadillac Gage V-150 armored car, ... show it covered with discarded ammunition crates and salvaged wood.