Australia Targets Daesh-ISIS ‘With Lethal Force’ at Home and Abroad

‘The oldest political trick of a leader in domestic strife is to emphasise the unholy nature of a threat from without. When the polls are low, nothing provides quite the necessary panacea than a military action, or promise of action, on a scale deemed exceptional.
The statement on national security delivered by Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to Parliament on Thursdaywas a recycling effort in large part. It also had its familiar distortions about a security environment that has been fluffed, sexed and altered to a point suggesting we are bracing for Dante’s Inferno.’
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