Freedom is always worth fighting for it. Whatever the outcome. But importantly, the reason that we went there was to track down Osama bin Laden and to ensure that we denied al-Qaida a base of operations out of Afghanistan.
And there has been so much blood and treasure lost in this very difficult campaign over 20 years. And our thanks are always to Australians who serve. They don’t get to decide the mission. They don’t get to decide the place.
Those decisions are taken at another level and they go and serve and they faithfully serve and they do it with great courage and great commitment to their country and the values that Australia represents it’s, which is freedom.
