Joe,

"So who is getting hysterical ? I'm confident that the government has pretty much everything under control. I feel quite insouciant."

Then you're just the type of exploitable lemming that that the govt was counting on.

Wounded Goose,

Shades of Orwell !

So insouciance is now hysteria ?

What's 'comfortable' and 'assured' then ?

Joe

Joe,

"So insouciance is now hysteria ?

That post pretty much sums it up.

Tones comes up with a new word - and Joe is such a self-reflective and independent thinker - he deploys Tony's word in every post.

Well done!

"http://www.businessinsider.com.au/prime-minister-tony-abbott-has-just-called-on-australians-to-defy-terrorists-by-being-insouciant-2014-9

Like I mentioned, you're just the type the govt had in mind when they embarked on this guff.

Wounded Goose,

Thanks for that Orwellian twist to my words and intentions. I suppose they think it's clever in year 11 :)

Any chance of getting back to topic ? For example, the distinction between 'unjust wars', wars thrust on unoffending countries, and 'just wars', wars of defence, wars of liberation from aggression ? Can you tell the difference ? Ask your history teacher.

Cheers,

Joe

The International Day of Peace has come and gone; what happened?

Loudmouth wrote: "For example, the distinction between 'unjust wars', wars thrust on unoffending countries, and 'just wars', wars of defence, wars of liberation from aggression ? Can you tell the difference ? Ask your history teacher."

History teachers are an unreliable guide. My aunt came from England to the United States as a teenager. English history as taught in England had George III as a great king. In the USA he was an unreasonable tyrant. It's the same with wars. The answers a history teacher will give to your questions depends on the country, whether the war was won or lost and a number of other factors.