Thanks to Tony Jones ( Lateline tuesday) persistence, the leadership , while they they may be still winning votes in Europe, are losing credibility with thinking people . If your insurgents don't have your support, why don't you deal with them. You mean too that that you, as a government, are too weak to stop "the innocents" being killed ?to do anything much at all?

Next question Tony . What is the exact status of austrailans living in lebanon?. Clearly there are not many tourists, in the sense of foreigh visitors. Even Mr Brown , your reporter , looks at home there . All this fussig/fudging? to suggest they can't flee seems like a real furphy of fantastical proportions -
Don't just talk and film victims: we are not stupid . convince us you care about how to get them out of danger zone not just film some predictable high level talk about "crimes" -attitude problems that someone else has .