Some 50 people are being held hostage by a gunman/men in a cafe in central Sydney. Our man in Sydney, BH, has an office nearby and reports that he and many others in the vicinity would would like nothing more than for police sharpshooters to take out the bastards, who are currently displaying an Islamist flag. At least Australia's no-nonsense Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is unlikely to offer Obama-style handwringing milque toast treatment for the terrorists. Aussies wouldn't react well to that.