To lie or not to lie...

Left-wing academics (oxymoron??) live in such ivory towers that they do not necessarily ignore evidence contrary to their own opinions, THEY ARE PROBABLY NOT EVEN AWARE THAT SUCH DIFFERENCES COULD POSSIBLY EXIST.

For example the latest storm in a teacup that necessitates their attention is that the Australian government(s), the RSL and other nefarious ANZAC 'spirits' have 'militarised' the entire Australian population.

These desk-bound pacifists champ at the bit about how our youth are being 'led down the military garden path' and vociferously decry the 'spectacle' of the Anzac parades.

How brave of them to speak truth to power. Note these same academics supporting Islamic sexism, violence, Anti-Jewish boycotts, the banning of free speech on college campuses etc etc.

However the saddest thing about their latest whingeing about the Anzac's is not so much their rampant hypocrisy as it is that these so-called 'scholars' fail the basic standard of factual objectivity required for an academic pursuit of truth.

If you had to sum up the authors' attitudes to wars, one observation is relevant: they concentrate on those wars that suit their pacifist and peace-march assumptions. Thus the ultimate opposition by a host of Australians to the Vietnam War is discussed, often vividly, but World War II is neatly skipped over and the Korean War is ignored. A section on Australia in the years 1939-42 should have been absolutely essential in the planning of this book. Instead the authors dwell on Australia's attitudes to Japan in the years 1904-14.

The authors even scorn the fears -- sometimes expressed in parliament and the press -- that a combined Japanese force might endanger Australian shores. But they are silent on the fact those forecasts came close to the bone in 1942. You could read this book and not learn that Japan invaded New Guinea and bombed Darwin. Japan's record in World War II is not really mentioned. Do the authors support Australia's participation in World War II? This book leaves readers in some doubt.

So it is unusual to see the RSL being singled out as an enemy of national values, while wartime Japan and Nazi Germany are essentially exempt from criticism.

Read the full exposure of their claims: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/we-werent-that-dumb/story-e6frg8nf-1225848127735