Afghanistan.

Now, being a child of the late 20th Century or whatever you want to call me, it was said a few years ago that us children of that era were afraid of war. To an extent that stands true.
We've had the benefits of studying the First and Second World Wars as well as Vietnam and saw the utter devastation that took place. I don't think it's a bad thing for us as a generation to not want that to happen to us or any other generation, or group of people for that matter.

In saying this, as a somewhat patriot, i find it disgusting that people are using the reccent deaths of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan to question why they're there.
Don't get me wrong I don't like Aussies being killed anymore than the next person. My Grandfather fought in WW2, for England but still, and I have friends in the Armed forces and i shudder that there's a possibility of them being in harm's way but if anything these deaths, especially of the two QLD Sapper's the other week that there is still work to be done.

I don't like the rationale, that we need to bring democracy to Afghanistan because that rationality didn't work out the first few times away, but i do think that if it is in our power to bring the people peace, stability and some sort of equality then we owe it to them to try.

Our armed forces join and know what they will be asked to do. They know what sort of situations they may find themselves in and they continue to do their job in spite of this.
These are not conscripts who didn't ask to be there.
These men and women want to be there, to do their duty to their country for people who wouldn't do it.

We owe them our support. They're fighting over there so that these horrible things don't come here.

I may not support the war but I will always, always support our troops.