Where is the debate on the war in Afghanistan?
Sydney Morning Herald KELLIE TRANTER April 26, 2010 They had no idea of how terrible it was. I used to look at their young faces and think of their mothers. Next day most of them would just be blood and bandages. Wherever you looked there would be these poor buggers on the side of the road, all wanting cigarettes, all busted up, some with arms and legs gone . . . Now you can’t tell me there is anything good about war – you think that’s fair enough? – Peter Casserly, WWI digger who declined to participate in ANZAC Day marches for some 85 years. As the war in Afghanistan marches on, and will soon escalate with the planned Kandahar offensive, and another Anzac Day passes, spare a thought for the 11 Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan – and for their friends and families who have been left with the agonising emptiness of the loss of their loved one. Spare a thought also for more than 100 defence personnel counted by the Australian Defence Force as having sustained injuries categorise
