Welcome to what will be my final post here on FINDLAYOSBORN.com, after two years of posting to this site, the time has come for me to stop giving my analysis and opinions of world and American Politics, as well as a few other subjects thrown in for good measure.
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Back in 2003 during and after Operation Iraqi Freedom, what became compulsory viewing for my family and I were the daily briefings by Centcom regarding the operation and overall situation in Iraq. Ours is a family with some military history attached so we were very interested by the events unfolding Iraq and grappled at the information that was fed to the world via these Centcom briefings.
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It is with no shortage of annoyance that I am beset by a copious amount of frustration over one Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator who at this present time is in the city of Beirut, touring the devastation in that city that has been caused by the Israeli Defence Force, as they battle both Hezbolla and the Lebanese Government in an effort to ensure security for their nation.
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In continuing to monitor the situation in the Middle East, I find myself seeking news from various sources available to me. One source that I have found always to be reliable and informative is BBC World, and indeed as the time passed 10:00PM here in Western Australia I tuned into BBC World to listen to David Jessel in London and Lyse Doucet currently positioned in Haifa.
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As the crisis that is enveloping the Middle East continues, I have refrained from blogging about every single act of violence that has occurred over the past few days, after all I am not in the region, I am fortunately safely ensconced in my home in peaceful and secure Australia.
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With Israel retaliating to yet another attack on its sovereign territory by groups who show no interest in letting Israel live in peace or security, I believe its well beyond time that the world community unleash Israel and allow the nation state to confront its enemies without limitation.
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While there is much yet to come in regards to the latest crisis revolving around North Korea and their missile tests, one thing is certain and that is just how good John Bolton is in the role of United States ambassador to the United Nations.
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In the intervening time between this latest blog entry and the last in late June, there have been numerous complicated issues affecting the world. The continued Israeli incursion into Gaza in response to an attack and subsequent attacks on its soil and now missile tests from the dictatorial regime in North Korea.
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With events unfolding rapidly in the Middle East I am staking out my news sources keeping track of what is going on in the region. One of the more significant events that has happened in the past minutes is news that Israel dispatched Air Force jets to Syria to fly over, it is reported, President Assad’s palace.
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Currently I find myself in the midst of watching the World Cup, more than a little sad over the fate of the brave Australian team. However whilst the World Cup has been in the forefront of my mind, lurking elsewhere is the knowledge of the continuing trouble in the Middle East, specifically the situation that has arisen after the attack on an Israeli military post, an attack that resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of one.
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Having recently written about Portugal’s unhelpful attitude with regard to the situation in East Timor, regretfully it seems that the Portuguese problem, though apparent and annoying has been trumped by unfolding events with the governing party in East Timor, Fretilin, choosing to back the out of favour Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
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It’s one of those strange little occurrences visiting a hospital and being “checked in” so to speak, having every little detail spoken of and about, whether it be age, allergies or weight, some of those facts and figures, particularly that last one, make for sobering thoughts!
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A thought has been with me for some time now is that those who inhabit the corridors of power and influence within continental, or as Donald Rumsfeld aptly put it “Old Europe“, have done so possessing a far left ideology, an ideology that displays a dangerous indifference to most anything and everything outside Europe.
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There is one phenomenon that seems to infuriate me more than most these days as it is a something that seems to take place all too often. The phenomena I speak of is America bashing.
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The current appalling situation in Gaza certainly is a black mark on this the first decade of the twenty-first century, for despite signs of promise, the old, one step forward ten steps back phenomena seems to the overriding principle in Gaza.
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It seems there can be a great deal said about conservative analyst Ann Coulter, depending on your point of view both complimentary and derogatory statements have been made with reference to Coulter, her various statements and books. I myself have no particular issue with Ms Coulter, indeed as an individual who believes himself to be a right wing conservative, many times I find what she has to say to be correct and containing common sense, yet at other times I am not so sure.
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News is emanating from Iraq that reviled Jordanian terrorist and leader of the Insurgency in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi has died following an air strike on a terrorist safe-house in Bakubah Iraq. The death of Zarqawi is a priceless victory for Iraqi’s and their fight for a new Iraq, but it also a major victory for the United States of America and coalition nations, fighting the war on terror.
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As I sit here thinking about what I might write as a comment on the situation with Michael Schumacher and qualifying for the 2006 Monaco Formula One Grand Prix, the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” resounds in my ears. For despite not being able to make a sufficient judgment myself as to what happened to Michael Schumacher at the end of qualifying, other peoples reactions to his supposed “cheating” indicate perhaps a kind of contempt for Formula One from Schumacher, the worlds most successful Formula One participant.
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After a week or so of being occupied with activities that took me away from blogging, I find there is a great deal going on in the world and that some of what is going on and some of that which has been said, needs to be addressed in no uncertain terms. I am especially mindful of the situation in East Timor, the country which is but a couple of hours from Australia’s shores and has experienced much in the time before and after Australian forces helped secure its independence late last decade.
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Is it just me or is what has unfolded on the streets of Gaza outside the parliament in the past few hours reminiscent of Beirut and Lebanon in the early 1980’s? I think so and I think it represents the ushering in of a dark and uncertain period for the Palestinian people if such violence does not cease or is not stopped.
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