A white kid, Jake Whoever from Melbourne, has blown himself and some Iraqis (or maybe Syrians??? I forgot) up in a suicide bombing. Australian press, and I guess the public, is freaking out quite a bit. Joining jihad: Australians who have gone to fight in Iraq and Syria Apologies for not following the Defence Forum India official party line and not being a "hypocritical First World Westerner" obsessed, and terrified, by the magnificent Putin and potential threat posed by the "resurgent" Russia and worried by BRICS.