Why do we have to keep sniveling to the US, when anyone with half a brain knows that the US needs another war to solve their economic problems!

WE do not seem to learn anything from recent history, when we went to war, "the coalition of the willing", based upon an outright lie ( and which most of our leaders knew was a lie!) when we invaded Iraq, bombed the crap out of it, and destroyed a nation and all of its historical infrastructure, the lie that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of Mass Destruction.

We lost a lot of good men once again, as we did in Vietnam and Korea, but still did not learn the lesson of Switzerland, remaining
neutral, instead of this ridiculous "Gung Ho" supporting a nation who appears to be intent on manipulating the start of another war of appeasement!

Our Defence Minister, Susan Ley, has just announced that "we will support the US unequivocally" in this latest foray into potential nuclear holocaust!

The argument of whether China has the right to declare a 12 mile zone of ownership around her Sprattly island facility, is an issue that should be decided by an international Court of Law, not by provacatively sending a warship into the zone of contention.

The US have for generations been the masters of "the creative threat"
to "up the ante" and put the country on a war footing, thereby solving their immediate economic problems, regardless of cost.

In war nobody wins, but a lot of people die, and a lot die terrible deaths, but unfortunately the politicians are immune from participation, and only read about the "statistics" in the comfort of their home.

We seem deliriously happy in wanting to engage in free trade with China, so why throw that away, by following the war-mongers to the brink?

I am a 77 years old ex-serviceman and can only say that the next world war will be very short and very tragic, due to the Nuclear content,so why don`t we STOP and THINK before throwing our cap into the middle?

You are old enough to have more sense. Nobody is "sniveling" to the US, which is being mismanaged by a real Left loon who requires to be called ( or his staff of morons) before a poor marine is allowed to draw a bead on the enemy. There is not, and will not be, a world war. The war is the rest of the world against Islam. And, the sooner Australia gets into it with America, the sooner ISIS is wiped out, the sooner the world will be a safer place. Mind you, I would rather team up with the Russians - who actually kill thugs - than an Obama US.

When ISIS is wiped out the CIA will just create, train and fund another group, they need a boogy man (organization, group) to justify the military industrial complex which props up there economy.

Also someone to test out new weapons on.

If you want some credibility, Crackcup, you should take care to get the basic facts right.

>>Our Defence Minister, Susan Ley, has just announced that...

Australia's Minister for Defence is the Hon. Marise Payne.

Sheesh. Is that too difficult?

I wholeheartedly apologize for my blunder in wrongly naming the Minister for Defence,.....as a matter of fact I am just watching Susan Ley on the National Press Club presentation!....however I am finding it hard to keep up with the names of the Ministers, who recently seem to be
changing nearly as fast as I change my underwear, so I forgive myself because I was in such a hurry to get this issue to print, as I am so very passionate about these particular issues that put our country at risk of vapourization.....(note the English spelling, not the US)

Further to my original post, I would like to say that there seems to be a lot of people out there living in Wally World, who simply cannot understand the fact that sniveling to the US will NOT keep us immune from harm.

The US has an endemic policy of "winning the conflict, be it psychological or physical" and you can forget about conflicts like the War with Germany and Japan. The new conflicts will be waged with weapons most horrible to contemplate, but be advised that the US has a policy of," we want it, and if we can`t have it, then nobody else will have it" In other words when the crunch comes it will be like the Cuban Missile Crisis, China (or Russia) will be expected to backdown, and if they don`t, then kiss your arse goodbye and watch for the mushroom clouds!

We are living in very dangerous times, much more dangerous than most people realize, and believe me when I say that it only takes a spark to light this conflagration.