Vikki Campion: Surely Afghanistan should set our priorities straight

The sobering issue is not terrorism or even the Taliban in Afghanistan. Apparently the way we are going to defend ourselves in the new world is with climate policy, Vikki Campion writes.

Climate change, benevolent sexism, lockdowns for areas without a trace of Covid-19 – this perpetual war of distraction plagues us, while the US Embassy in Kabul tweeted a Pride flag, as the Taliban wearing little more than AK47’s, sandals and rags, in the scorching sun, readied to attack.

The role of the Australian Infantry is to seek out the enemy, kill or capture him, seize and hold ground, and repel attack by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain.

It is not to seek out the enemy, engage a diversity officer to record their gender preference, sexual orientation, and attitude to wind farms, by bike or carbon-neutral canoe.

Our defence force is there to fight for freedom, but instead, we have them PC, wandering the streets of western Sydney delivering groceries and searching for an overarching forward defence strategy.

Unemployed drivers in western Sydney who can’t leave their LGA would be thrilled to be paid by the government to deliver bread and milk. Forget kill and capture; we are now making them keep a five-star rating as they morph into UberEats.

The sobering issue is not terrorism or even the Taliban; our chief ally is sailing away from us. How are we going to defend ourselves in the new world? Apparently, climate policy.

How do you feel about climate change? Terrible, they say as they get into their Range Rover. I can’t sleep at night, they say, as they plan their home renovations.

What is the prize in winning the climate debate when the Chinese Communist Party, happy to accept delegations from the Taliban, glad to make the Taliban part of their Belt and Road Initiative, and seemingly having no problem with the change, has kept its Kabul embassy open?

Most of our primary communication channels go under the South China Sea, which China believes it now owns. They have weapons to turn off our satellites.

China has 50 attack submarines and four ballistic missile submarines with many more planned. We have six submarines.

China has around 2100 fighter planes, attack jets and bombers. We have 110 combat aircraft.

Our defence force – not offence force like China has – is not even a big day at the cricket; all our serving personnel couldn’t fill the MCG, while China’s military is bigger than the city of Adelaide.

Did Senator Matt Canavan believe he was belittling the efforts of troops when he said on social media, “Does anyone know if the Taliban will sign up to Net Zero?”

He issued a wake up in 44 letters only to get cancelled before he could explain the world is changing, and it’s time to understand the real threat.

Senator Canavan, who went against the grain when he called for repatriation planes to rescue Aussies stuck in India, who believes Afghans hunted for helping Australians should get refuge, has nothing but contempt for the Taliban.

However, more righteous is the ever-eloquent Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, who recently told a Senate committee, “you can’t con this little black gin”, appearing on top of the cancel culture pile-on, tweeting: “What a f*cking joke!!! You are disgrace!!!”

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe. Picture: AAP/Luis Ascui

Apparently, his tweet is the problem – not people dying in Kabul while our soldiers are forced to patrol the border of one Covid-free community to another.

The Greens called for 20,000 visas, but Senator Thorpe took it a step further: “We need to protect and give all people seeking asylum the protection they need.”

Music to the ears of any potential terrorists set on embedding operatives on a Boeing to Blacktown.

Other MPs who have fought to bring Afghan interpreters to Australia are warned off from advocacy after intelligence investigations bring up violent terrorist links – in one case, gauging out the eyes of a six-year-old girl.

According to the Greens, we need to give them a house next door to you, preferably carbon neutral.

Is it climate, or a totalitarian rein that has spy ships off your coast, hacks your Parliamentary computer system and openly states it seeks to invade Taiwan, with a military bigger in number and soon to be more powerful than the United States?

Seven years ago, the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free, and by 2005, children weren’t supposed to know what snow was anymore.

Now the IPCC tells us global warming of 2C will happen during the 21st century, and it’s all Canberra can think about.

If the CCP launch hypersonic missiles over the horizon, you can shout, “I drive a Tesla”, “my house is carbon neutral”, “my dog is vegan”, “you will not define my gender”, “English is the language of the oppressor”.

This war won’t be won with solar panels or the non-binary box in the Census.

Our kids inherit our priority confusion.

Afghanistan has shown us another mum is not going to offer her son to fight your war.