let's put aside the inherent contradiction in wanting to pay our respects to those who served without any criticism of the govt of the day's basis for its decision making.
i get it. Govt and many participants want the sole focus of Anzac day to be on those who served, without a political element.
If i was in govt, so would i. Having to explain your decisions particularly when they're wrong is awfully hard to do.
so perhaps at the very least, we could demand the govt of the day clearly articulate who its sending Australian forces overseas to kill. To ask the govt to define the enemy.
if this was law perhaps Australia could have avoided involvement in American genocides in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
if the govt wants to put Australia's finest in harms way on another pathetic overseas misadventure where the risk is they'll be killed, govt must define the enemy.
