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The war she won’t discuss
August 18th, 2010 by Syd Walker

At last – a documentary filmed from WITHIN the Taliban

(Scroll down for a must-see ten minute documentary made by Norwegian filmaker Paul Refsdal, using footage he took recently in Kunar Province, Eastern Afghanistan. Narrated by Alex Thompson, this remarkable insight into the life of Taliban resistance fighters was shown first on Britain’s Channel 4)

Last week, during the latest ritual national mourning  for yet another Australian soldier slain in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Julia Gillard was asked if she’d support a Parliamentary debate on Afghanistan (shorthand for Australia’s continuing military involvement in the occupation of that sovereign nation for the best part of a decade).

She refused to answer.

This is worse than World War Two, when Parliament was not gagged in similar fashion.

Julia Gillard and Bob Hawke

Julia Gillard and Bob Hawke, present & past ALP leaders who spoke at the 2010 Labor Party election launch; both notorious Zionist toadies and tag-alongs serving the US war machine

Like the rest of the Canberra Idiocracy, Julia Gillard may well live in a make-believe land – a world in which Australia’s SAS soldiers are valiant righteous heroes and the Taliban all evil villainous baddies. Perhaps she snuggles up on the sofa after a long day, in the arms of her Zionist boyfriend, and watches Cowboys and Indians movies?

Ms Gillard should watch this video too.

It’s the first documentary I’ve seen in nine years that’s filmed  from the perspective of Afghani resistance fighters. This is real journalism – something you rarely see via the shamed and discredited mainstream media.

Meet the people Australia’s trained killers hunt out and slaughter, to the applause of this nation’s desktop-warrior politicians.

Do Australian politicians really not understand that Afgans are people too? Can they really not appreciate that Afghanis want to live without foreign occupation? Is that really too hard to grasp – and to respect – Ms Gillard?

No wonder you don’t want to discuss Afghanistan.


3 Responses  
  • mark writes:
    August 19th, 201011:50 amat

    Paul Refsdal’s got some guts. He should win an award for that doco. He claims he specialises in insurgent groups, which has to be the most dangerous form of journalism.

    http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2981334.htm

    Syd, I dare say Gillard will watch this doco since it airs on dateline this week.

    I doubt it will cause her to reconsider the wisdom of chasing shadows in Afghanistan for nine years and counting.

      

    • Syd Walker writes:
      August 19th, 201011:59 amat

      Thanks for pointing that out Mark. I didn’t know SBS was going to run it. Interesting. You may be right it won’t change minds of the rusted-on war supporters in government.

      It made me very sad though – because those guys were legendary for their hospitality to westerners as recently as the 1970s, when Afghanistan was a favourite destination on the travellers route between Europe and India. They are fighting because our troops are occupying their land, simple as that. How people with a background on the left – such as John Faulkner and Julia Gillard – can’t see that is hard to fathom. If they can see it, how do they sleep at night?

      After all, they give the orders that result in the murder of Afghani children.

        

      • mark writes:
        August 19th, 20101:46 pmat

        Yes I know.

        I think you leave your ideological convictions at the door when you enter Parliament–unless your passion is for slavish adherence to militarist intervention, Zionism and cowboy capitalism–in which case your ideological convictions are heartily encouraged.

        We live in an idiocracy.

          


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