Following the deaths of another 3 young Australians and the wounding of 7 others in Afghanistan - we have seen both the Minister and the Head of Defence standing up and presenting the details on national television. As you would hope and expect.
This time Minister Smith took the time to explain - in simple and thoughtful words why we are there and what the longer term plan is likely to be. And his explanation makes perfect sense - I don't think that is in dispute.
It's just a real pity that neither he nor the Prime Minister has been able to articulate that previously.
What is in dispute is how we got here with 32 young dead Australians.
* How did we get into such a shitty and dangerous little war?
* Why did we follow the US along like lap dogs into this quagmire?
* What changes have we made inside our government to ensure that we don't fall into a similar trap again?
* Why didn't the parliament get to vote on this crappy little adventure and what have we done to fix that?
And so on. These are the real questions that our Government should be dealing with.
And the Government's answer to them all is - "we don't want to discuss that".
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