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| 'Get ready for 100-year war with Islam': Former Australian Army chief |
| 2014-08-11 |
| [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The former Chief of the Australian Army, professor Peter Leahy, has warned that Australia needs to prepare itself for a century-long war, both overseas and at home, against radical Islamic bully boys. Currently the director of the National Security Institute at the University of Canberra, professor Leahy told Daily Mail Australia that as a liberal, secular society, Australia is perceived as 'the far enemy' by radical Islamic groups and individuals, and would no doubt continue to be targeted. 'We are already affected in that there are places that would be wise for us not to travel to and there have been terrorist bombings in places that we do travel to, as we can see from 9/11 and both of the Bali bombings,' Mr Leahy said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 D *** NG IT, this sounds like another long-ago dream or vision of mine but where? when? lol. By the above, I interprete AUS to also mean andor infer the US-West, so I'll just say "Yuuupp". After all, the future US Convert to Islam known as the Mahdi/Hidden Imam can't do or be so iff the ISIS is not around to inspire him, now can he??? As also indirectly helped back in 1960's-1970's = you know, 2014 by ... * GUAM PDN > OBAMA'S [anti-ISIS] IRAQ AIM: CONTAIN, BUT DO NOT DESTROY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-11 22:20 |
| #8 Sorry, I mean: read the list for 100 years starting in 633. |
| Posted by: Si vis pacem para bellum 2014-08-11 19:32 |
| #7 The moslems have been at war for 1400 years, since by definition any territory not subjugated is Dar al-Harb. Why would it stop now? Rome utterly destroyed Carthage. What is going to be today's equivalent for the West against Islam? See the record of battles and conquests for 100 years starting in 733, as an example of what Islam has been about, since the beginning. |
| Posted by: Si vis pacem para bellum 2014-08-11 19:31 |
| #6 It could be a lot quicker if we actually wanted to win. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-11 14:46 |
| #5 Anon1. We have the Bill of Rights which guarantees individual liberties. Included are in these rights are freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. Didn't Australia outlaw arms in Australia a few years back? We have assaults on these freedoms all the time. I don't know what you do when religious adherents are determined to undermine your government, way of life, and culture--there is that supremacy notion within Islam. We are still picking our way through that. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-11 12:34 |
| #4 Anon1, We passed the Patriot Act here. Sounds similar to what you are talking about. The Islamics have taken advantage of our freedoms. It is a challenge for Democracies to balance freedoms vs. security. Ben Franklin is attributed with saying the following: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-11 12:24 |
| #3 Right about the war with islam But that is the sell, they are not serious or they would ban islam They are just using it to grab power for asio and the intelligence agencies The Bill before parliament makes NO reference r o jihadis - it suspends the rule of law for intel staff making them immune from prosecution And gives them absolute secrecy It is a recipe for disaster, and goodbye democracy We should just write a specific law for Islamist Jihadis |
| Posted by: Anon1 2014-08-11 11:19 |
| #2 The war is already going on. It has its ebbs and flows. It rises and then it gets beat down for awhile. If one counts all these ebbs and flows, we have already been at it longer than 100 years with these jackasses. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-11 10:14 |
| #1 It won't last that long. They will do most of the killing of EACH OTHER. Do they invent anything? Do they just borrow or steal? Its already over. Just a matter of watching them fall down slowly. And its not like they were really good soldiers to begin with, is it? |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-08-11 08:59 |