For its part, Israel is gambling that the right strategy is to make the people who elected Hamas and a government that includes Hezbollah reckon the costs of their representatives' recklessness. That is why Israel has targeted not only Hezbollah leaders and strongholds but has also bombed infrastructure that sustains daily life for everybody in Lebanon. From Israel's standpoint, this is no longer a fight with nonstate terrorists who are holding their fellow citizens hostage to their tactics. It is, rather, war between Israel and countries that are pursuing (or tolerating) violent policies endorsed (or at least accepted) by their electorates.Yep, you can be bombed because your government has some shit policies.
... Democracy means that you cannot blame someone else for troubles caused by your own government.
We're all fucked then, aren't we?**
refusal to sign kyoto protocol
abolition of atsic
illegal wars in two countries
no apology to stolen generations
detention of refugees and australian citizens
abuse of asio powers
loss of the siev x
the tampa
the wik ten point plan
return of "the dole"
attacks on universities & public schools,
attacks on the national broadcaster
the not-so-free trade agreement with the u.s.a.
awb bribery revelations
abandonment of david hicks
attack-dog bill heffernan using parliamentary privilege to defame michael kirby
wrongheaded push for nuclear power
appointment of hollingworth as governor-general
manipulation of referendum on the republic
denial of racist dimension to cronulla riots
implementation of gst
children overboard
industrial rights eroded beyond recognition
* You might need to use BugMeNot to get access.
** Balance sheet is stolen from kp.
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i see that your contempt for academia doesn't preclude you from citing the work of others.
funny, that's EXACTLY what those wacky academics are on about with their "peer review" malarkey - ensuring standards of research and accountablity remain high.
IRONICALLY, one of the major reasons we do this is to make us less vulnerable to attacks from outside the academy. it's the way we maintain credibility in the face of RABID AND MINDLESS ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM.
*gazes out of ivory tower at tiny people below*
*orders another latte*
Oh dear, I've stirred up a hornets nest in the lovebirds' nest.
Next time I need to remember that peer review = THE WAR.
yes... we are fucked if we are relying on what our government does and does not do. Unfortunately, this is nothing new.
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