Carr shows why he is the ALP Foreign Minister

[boxy]

So, he should have lied, instead of stating the obvious, that it'll probably take an assassination to oust the status quo?

I guess the rusted ons are so used to being lied to, that they now demand it?

[IQS.RLOW]

Foreign ministers are supposed to have far better diplomatic skills than stating the obvious

[boxy]

"He should have lied"?

That's what I said...

[IQS.RLOW]

So it would be ok with you if the US secretary of state came out and said that prising Gillard out of the chair before August 2013 will only be reliably achieved with a bullet?

[boxy]

It would be the truth.

[IQS.RLOW]

It would be the truth.

But would it have been appropriate?

[boxy]

It depends on whether the leader involved was acting within the bounds of the countries constitution.

Get back to me when Australian is involved in a civil war, eh.

[IQS.RLOW]

It was still inappropriate for the foreign minister to publicly declare assasination as a way forward. Highly so, and I suspect your bias precludes you from seeing it so.

[boxy]

Oh yeah, it's inappropriate.

I just find it hilarious that you are now demanding that the government is negligent because they didn't lie.

[IQS.RLOW]

I'm not demanding they are negligent and neither am I saying what Carr said was the truth. It was his opinion and an unwarranted one coming from the foreign minister.

But they are incompetent and this episode by Carr is just another one to add to the very long list they have built themselves