Elephants in the Room

I think I am lucky in that I have a rather nice collection of friends scattered over this planet. In the main they are all the product of a Christian, white protestant Liberal (with a small l) upbringing and very tolerant. In other words they are in the majority of the countries they call home. For many years we have communicated very regularly and discussed our aches and pains, views on this and that and whatever has been the burning issue of the day. However, I thought the other day of the one thing we had never really discussed, to any great degree. It was as if to raise it would be similar to farting loudly during a sunday service in St Pauls. Naturally you have guessed what it is. Its effects were very much at the heart of the outrage in Paris recently and it struck me of just how much that carnage was ins some small way our fault for not tackling, or more probably having Politicians capable of not tackling a simple issue that was ignored simply because it was none PC to do so.

In particular, I was struck by just how fearful one very dear friend in Germany is and another in Belgium. The friend in Germany is very much the inclusive socialist and the other a devout Christian lady and yet both would be happy to see parts of the Middle East bombed back into the dark ages. Which in my view would prove the square route of sod all!

I think if there is time now to discuss the presence and effect of so many Elephants in so many rooms then we better get on with it and do it soon, Churchill said "jaw jaw not war war" and of course he was right up to a point. I hope that point has not been reached for talking and there is still time. The UN has just passed a very powerful vote that essentially allows the world to declare and carry on war against that bunch of murdering scum laughingly called IS. And yet, we still have to discuss it in the house of Parliament and we still have to agree on what to do then, well best get a move on then because the horse is very much in front of the cart on this one.

You may notice that no one nation is in any particular rush to do much more than uselessly bomb a lot of towns containing a lot of poor buggers who have nothing to do with IS and in the process they will probably cause more people to harbor hatred against those that bomb them. Well, wouldnt you get annoyed at being bombed? Then there will no doubt be a period of everyone earning lots of airmiles going here and there to confer about what they are going to do next and then not doing it. Meanwhile we will go back to being lemmings and forgetting the threat until another town is torn to pieces by gun fire. We are an amazing breed.

Well, I never have shied away from facing elephants in the room and once upon a time used to earn my living doing it. So, if I may, a word of advice, to the elephant dodgers out there.

Get your act together, get a unified command and strategy, then declare total and unrestricted war on these murdering bastards wherever they are and do not stop till it is over. In that way you may, repeat may, just get it done and completed much much sooner and with less death than by farting about at 30,000ft dropping large lumps of expensive hate on nothing in particular.

Then when it is over pass a really big and impressive law to ensure that all elephants have the right to be wherever they wish to be and be talked to face to face and not behind their backs. Its rude, really upsets elephants and look where it gets you!