Morrison says troops died ‘for a great cause’ in Afghanistan. To quote a grieving father, that’s bullshit | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Mon, 16/08/2021 - 3:07pm

It’s time we told the truth about ‘the fallen’ of our wars, and stopped hiding behind their memory

Scott Morrison is shamelessly audacious to claim Australian service personnel died for “a great cause” in this country’s foremost 21^st century moral-military failure – Afghanistan.

As Afghanistan reverts to a real-life Gilead with the Taliban victory (thanks to America cutting and running and its allies, not least Australia, pre-emptively, cowardly, scurrying out unannounced, on its coattails) Morrison, in a round of broken-record media calls, evoked all the Anzac military myth this country has ever used to justify involvement in too many pointless imperial wars.