Its time wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 9:58am:


what do you mean 'now'? He's been trolling ever since the election was called

____ wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 10:02am:


Yes, everything is the fault of the US.  All Syrians fleeing is the fault of the US.  Idiot greens.

The only thing we can agree on in this case is that the US foreign policy, along with NATO and all the rest of the allies, Australia included, got one thing wrong: they Should immediately send in coalition forces and end this crisis once and for all.  It has always been blatantly clear that the Syrian people are unable to bring peace to themselves. 

But your solution is to leave Australia without any voice and instead continue The refugee crisis. This is the "ethical" greens.

By fast processing and assisted integration into Australian society.

Also Australia separating from the US alliance and forming an independent foreign policy.

Stronger targets on climate change, via a 1.5 degree of global warming. So to decrease more countries following Syria's downward spiral.

sir prince duke alevine wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 10:06am:



And what of Africa and groups like Boka Haram. Are Africans the wrong colour, to expect Australian troops on the ground.

Your position is RACIST !

____ wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 10:11am:


Maybe you should GO BACK TO YOUR ISLAND HOME and invite them to come live with you, and you can become their QUEEN 

60,000 'tortured to death in Syrian jails'

At least 60,000 people have died due to torture and maltreatment in Syrian jails since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad broke out five years ago, a monitoring group says, quoting sources within the country's security forces.

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday reported that the figure of 60,000 deaths came from reliable sources, primarily in the air force intelligence and state security agencies and at the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus.

The victims died as a direct result of torture or due to a lack of food and medicine inside the detention facilities, the UK-based monitoring group said.

The observatory said that using other sources, it had itself documented the deaths of 14,456 detainees, including 110 children under the age of 18.

The Syrian opposition has pushed for the release of detainees as a humanitarian measure to facilitate the resumption of peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva.

UN rights investigators in February accused the Syrian government of carrying out an extermination policy among its prisoners.

The investigators cited testimony from witnesses who recounted inmates dying from "torture, disease, and appalling prison conditions" and then being buried in mass graves.

Earlier this month, inmates in Hama prison in central Syria rioted and took guards hostage in protest over an attempt to transfer several prisoners to Sednaya prison.

The inmates feared the transferees, who had been sentenced to death by ad-hoc military courts, would face execution, the observatory reported at the time.

Authorities regained control after agreeing to the release of dozens of detainees, according to the monitoring group.

The observatory called on the UN to bring pressure to bear on the Syrian government for the release of what it said were more than 200,000 remaining detainees.

Syria's conflict, which began with peaceful protests in March 2011, has spiralled into a multi-sided civil war that has cost a quarter of a million lives and displaced half the country's population, according to UN estimates.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/60000-tortured-to-death-in-syri...


Should we double our 12,000 Syrian Refugees, and speed up the uptake?

____ wrote on May 22^nd, 2016 at 10:11am:


No, my position is very clear:  when it is abundantly clear that the people have no hope is solving a situation that denies them their freedom then it is up to the international community to respond, and do so without wasting time sipping lattes and discussing why it must all be Americas fault.  However, when a country has an ability to defend itself against threats, as is the case in Nigeria and as is being shown with their current government (disclaimer that I haven't yet researched their leaders entire past history), then the international community must support when necessary or requested.

Your position is also clear: to sit around, sipping your latte, and first denounce America cause it's fashionable and because you hate their superpower status.  Then come up with stupid reasons for the war.  Then decry how horrible war is in general, while taking another sip, and then suggest it's due to the west, perhaps imperialsm, and then  create so much opposition to war that commercial politics responds with measures that ultimately deny people their ability to obtain freedom.  And while you spend all this time trying to find a way to blame the west, people in desperate situations continue to die.  But who cares right, because for the regressive left what's important is to constantly find fault with either the US or with the west or with the West's history.