Afghanistan Withdrawal

I was very pleased to hear of the withdrawal of most Australia's military force from Afghanistan.

Yesterday, I heard on radio 693 the opening of Neil Mitchell's show.

Was it worth it?, he asked. He answered using what our VC decorated soldier Donaldson said to him when he asked him that question.

Donaldson/Mitchell said, "Was WW1 worth it?Was WW11 worth it? Would more terrorist attacks by plane on buildings have happened in the US had we not gone? Would there have been more bombs in Bali? We simply had to go. We had no choice.

My answers to these questions were-
NO
NO
NO ONE KNOWS
NO ONE KNOWS

I don't believe we had no choice. Of course we did.

Later in the program someone said we had to go to Afghanistan because it was issuing phony passports to terrorists to come and attack the US. A question arose in my mind. Would it have not been more prudent to not recognize Afghanistan passports and refuse entry or at least submit them to to utmost scrutiny at the domestic level? Think of the trillions of dollars that would have been saved and the human life as well. That money could have been used in other ways.

My view was in 2001, as it is now, that military invasion or attack by Australia on another nation is abhorrent to me. Sicko stuff.