Abbott backstabs Turnbull over national security - "Comeback strategy"

Abbott doesn't have a hope in hell of bringing Team Abbott back, but he's never had a grip on reality. Or telling the truth. His commitment when turfed not to undermine Turnbull from the back bench is now absurd and laughable.

So his exiled Team Abbott is currently in the wilderness and of course it's Abbott's task to reinstate himself as glorious leader to save Australia from our current namby pamby peace-loving leftie PM Turnbull. He probably even considers it's his divine duty or something.

Now he's used the opportunity to give his insane opinions all over his favourite right wing media outlets about the Paris attacks, whilst Turnbull is out of the country. Pretty gutless I reckon, why not say it when he's here then?

Bizarrely and against all human behavioural  logic, he claims that he was right when he gave that revolting speech in London about those evil refo's flooding into Europe. That we must invade Syria so that ISIS will be clobbered. Yes, he would send in Australian troops if he was still PM to Syria. 

He just hasn't got the faintest idea. It's bad enough bombing the place into the ground, but invading it as well? The radicals would have a propaganda field day over such a stupid move. A call to arms going out to more and more sympathisers.

Thank fuck Abbott is not PM now. We need cool heads and delicate stepping, not a fuckin great baseball bat. Abbott doesn't care though, it's all just politics for him, nothing else.

There is little choice other than to intensify the current military campaign in Iraq and Syria, while pursuing with vigour the political solution agreed to by the US, Russia and others in Vienna last week. It is the only hope for a long-term resolution to what Abbott rightly calls a "witches' brew". But invade? That's exactly what IS wants. 

If Abbott had one strength as leader it was national security and Liberals believe he is using this to try to get his job back. 

"It's the comeback strategy," one minister said. 

Another said of Abbott and his followers: "They see themselves as the government in exile." 

It is no surprise Abbott is bitter and is seeking vengeance, as Kevin Rudd did to Julia Gillard. 

But to undermine your own side on national security by eroding the people's trust in the government to protect them in such terrifying times? 

That's a whole new level. Australian Financial Review