Posted on 08/09/2014 4:44:22 PM PDT by naturalman1975
AUSTRALIA needs to prepare for an increasingly savage, 100-year war against radical Islam that will be fought on home soil as well as foreign lands, the former head of the army, Peter Leahy, has warned.
Professor Leahy, a leading defence and strategic analyst, told The Weekend Australian the country was ill-prepared for the high cost of fighting a war that would be paid in “blood and treasure” and would require pre-emptive as well as reactive action.
“Australia is involved in the early stages of a war which is likely to last for the rest of the century,” he said. “We must be ready to protect ourselves and, where necessary, act pre-emptively to neutralise the evident threat. Get ready for a long war.”
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Professor Leahy — a former lieutenant general who ran the army for six years, from 2002-2008 — said the threat of radical Islam would require action on several fronts, including a strengthening of controls against biological, chemical and nuclear attacks.
It would also include greater protection for critical infrastructure and iconic targets against attack.
The Western withdrawal from Afghanistan did not constitute the end of the so-called war on terror, “nor, as was claimed by prime minister Julia Gillard, in January 2013, a transition from the 9/11 decade”, he said.
Michael Krause, a former senior Australian Army officer responsible for planning the coalition campaign in Afghanistan, said he agreed “absolutely” with Professor Leahy. “I have seen these people,” the retired major general said.
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100 years?
1400 and counting!
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No.
You beat me to it. Read “Jihad in the West” by Paul Fregosi and you will know the basis for the “1400 and counting.” This is a war against a dogma, an ideology, a religion started by a robber, murderer, epileptic, rapist and child abuser. It also is what many people refer to as the Antichrist and will be responsible for Armageddon.
Unfortunately, more and more good news services are going to a paid model. You certainly don’t have to pay - but it’s capitalism in action.
BFLR
Good luck with your disarmed subjects!
we’re going to have to start over after obama leaves office. he has unwon every victory GWB earned in the GWoT.
in fact, he’s trying to unwin the cold war right now, and parhaps even israel’s victory in the six days war.
Only if you assume there are moderate muslims.
Better get started.
We could resolve this by declaring a crusade against Islam and moving the world’s armies to wipe it out.
Yes, Australia has some overly restrictive gun laws. But we are not disarmed. There are millions of legally held firearms owned by over a million Australian citizens. Law abiding citizens can, quite readily, own firearms.
I do.
I've got one of these:
and one of these:
as well as some more basic hunting rifles (.22s).
We have universal registration and universal licencing and I'm not a big fan of the registration and some of the other rules, but we're far from disarmed.
Optimist, eh?
I like your optimist comment. Funny.
This is the flag of surrender.
As long as Islam exists, the civilized world will be fighting the Muslim savages.
It was widely reported that all Aussies had been disarmed. I never knew any better. I guess that we were lied to by MSM- imagine that!
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