japie said...

As such, it is time to stop wasting Australian lives on oiling the wheels of American favour. There has never been a compelling case for Australia to engage in war after war in the Middle East, an area far from our sphere of influence or major trading partners.

Not being a trading partner and/or outside our sphere of influence is no excuse for not doing something to "help".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

You can flame me for supporting imperialism, economic self and that we may or may not be helping, but that's a separate matter...

cisco said...

japie said...

I'm sorry

For what?

Swamping!

Which is of course what we get from the "Media", ad infinitum.

America is in dire straits at the moment. Someone asked if we should worry. Well no, because worrying achieves nix. Should we be concerned?

In a huge way. What happens over there is no concern of mine but when we blindly follow their policies and back them up in war then it does affect us.

And if there is anyone out there who denies that Monsanto has a lobby in our government then they are fooling themselves.

The food industry in the States is a disgrace because all of the government bodies are "swamped' with corporate identities, as are virtually all of their government bodies from univerisites to health care.

The pharma industry owns a huge slice of medicos who act as distributors for their drugs.

It is all pervasive and it is creeping in here.