Australian troops question Defence secrecy around their injuries
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1 responses to “Australian troops question Defence secre”
Eric Carwardine
May 10th, 2010 at 13:18
G’day, folks
” … our [Australian] casualties have dropped off the public radar … ” (The Sunday Telegraph, May09, 2010) largely, I suspect, because we’re resigned to the ultimate futility of what we’re trying to do in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Now that I think of it, I don’t know what we’re trying to do. Since I don’t know, I don’t care. Insensitivity to news of casualties must be the logical consequence of not caring.
The “other side” knows what we are doing; we are providing “them” with the irreplacable opportunity to perfect “their” techniques and “their” weapons. And while we’re doing that for “them” we are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks and biological warfare. We might equip our soldiers with the best boots in the world, but will that deter the master-hacker in some obscure nation who targets us electronically? And where did all those Russian microbiologists find employment when the USSR imploded?
Perhaps it is best that we purge our minds of news of casualties, lest cynicism replace sympathy. If we hear and read too much we might come to realise the total hypocrisy of it all. What makes me sneer is how we whinge about desperate people coming here in frail boats while it’s quite okay to send our armed forces into THEIR country! The Taliban they can live with, but I imagine that random acts of violence, cutely called “co-lateral damage”, do become rather galling. “So sorry. Didn’t mean it. Perhaps Centrelink can help
Hahaha!”
A disgusted Eric Carwardine, in Perth, Western Australia