Interrogating 14-year-old Muslim children (night and day) will increase terrorism in Australia. What will reduce terrorism is if Australia declines to join America’s supremacy wars in far-away Muslim lands.
Instead of trips to kowtow, Julie Bishop should detach from America, with love. Until we joined America’s crusades, few Muslims knew Australia existed. The harm we’ve done in Muslim lands will take generations to heal.
But a journey from lunacy to sanity begins with one step. That step is to admit that our foreign policy is crazy.
Don’t blame Julie Bishop. It’s not her fault. It’s our fault for tolerating bad policies.
Graham Macafee, CLA member, Latham ACT (Letters, Canberra Times, 151015)