their countrymen. Their families were treated like pariah, and to exacerbate their disdain DVA, AMA, and local Govt, refused to acknowledge their PTSD, toxic defoliant spraying, napalm, SID etc battle inflicted injuries, or grant them rate concessions / discounts or bursaries for their children. Many were branded malingerers, opportunist, psychos, and every other unprintable adjective for doing their rightful duty, serving their Country.

Ever since colonization, Aust have followed in the wake of Mother England, committing it's strapping young men to War's, not of their choice. Politicians have whole heatedly supported our involvement, which inevitably sapped the Nation's manhood of it's greatest resources. The duplicity of our leaders is awesome - the Armed services because of budgetary constraints have never been equipped with modern weaponry, equipment or survival training to fulfill any of it's military assignments.

Historians, AWM, RSL etc conveniently overlook many of our heroic disasters to embellish events to appear straight forward, when in reality it is anything but. Faithful to American journalism, they are obsessed with " body counts " i.e enemy corpses after every skirmish. Nothings changed. This time it's sanitized and classified. Civilian casualties never make the D list.

The aftermath 9/11 spawned Security Agencies to new levels. There are over 32 Federal Agencies, including the FBI, CIA, NSA etc which overseer hundreds of State Security personnel and counter insurgent specialist, besides innumerable Law enforcements. The Military, not to be outdone, have Intelligence and counter intelligence on all their Bases, at home and abroad. All Embassy's are shrouded in secretive Intelligence Operatives.

In Tijuana. Mexico, they recently discovered 150 fully functional tunnels under the Border to safe houses in Arizona. Business warehouses and cafeterias provided exits for illegals, drugs, contraband, etc which according to the FBI, for it's sophistication, would have harbored many thousands of transit migrants, and container loads of hard drugs.

Frankly, is this an overkill or are we too insular ? What became of Ben Laden and terrorism ?