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 | The Australian Mentality when under Attack Posted by Cassandra on 9/10/2004, 5:49pm | |
| Following from the bombing of the Sari night club in Bali some 2 years ago, yesterday saw Australia under a vicareous attack, when the Australian Embassy in Jakarta was bombed with loss of 11 lives (none of them Australians, although this was more by luck than anything). Articles in newspapers, letters to newspapers, and open forums conducted in the online versions of the mainline newspapers "The Age" and "The Sydney Morning Herald", are almost 80% of the "It's all John Howards' fault" variety; for taking Australia into a small supportive role in Iraq and Afganistan and mandatory detainment of non-approved arrivals to the country. Many even call for the Australian government to arrange "discussions" with terrorists to appease them, and to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on funding schooling, health and welfare schemes in poverty stricken Muslim countries. The overall call is for Australia to "apologise" to Muslims, withdraw completely from anywhere they don't give specific permission to be, and give them money - in addition to publicly break all ties with America. Worse, the disgusting stance taken by this government by the statements made by the deputy prime minister on a trip to mainline China that, should China invade tiny Taiwan, there is little likelyhood Australia would take any action to support any efforts made by the US to reverse such an invasion of free peoples, has been universally applauded. I have never before had to witness at first hand a country, en masse, demonstrate such unutterable, craven cowardice; such a perversion of any understanding of decency and even common sense. This is the real working end of the philosophy which has pervaded Australia over the past 30 years - postmodernism and relativism. This is what it has done to a once staunchly individualist, proud nation; a people who once delighted in being "larrikens" with little respect for nonsense and great sense of rightfulness. Never have I been so glad that I'm not an Australian, nor so determined to stand up and say so. | ||
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