60 minutes just did a major special on Australia's SAS role in Afghanistan.

Basically a lot of 'Traitors' to the SAS have gone running to the Media (who is Anti Military/Political anyway) and cried that the Australian SAS are nothing but Murderers of Civilians who just try to boost their 'Kill Numbers' ego.

So we have our own version of the SS Troops of Nazism.
Apparently our big time tall War Hero of many Medals actually thought he was in the movie '300' (Spartans) and kicked a civilian down a hill then shot him. Seems many in the SAS think they are 'Spartans' - the Warrior Code.
Maybe they show the movie on Training Nights? 

Besides our Police pointing their guns at each other.
Looks like the Military is too.

I switched it off half way through.

When you unleash the dogs of war then evil takes over.
Normal men become murderers.

It has always happened and it will never stop.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2019 at 11:30pm:



War is evil - it's that simple.

The problem I believe is that the SASR nowadays is very different from the SASR of my youth.  I served with several ex-SASR members.  They were top blokes and while as hard as nails, were human as well.  The SASR of today has come to believe it's own legend, it's own myths and holds itself as being superior to all others.

In part they are but in part they aren't.  They are ordinary men who have been given the opportunity to do extraordinary things.  They don't need special weapons for the most part.  They don't need super-special training for the most part.  Their role was originally, in the Australian Army, that of long range reconnaissance and they were very good at that.  They have now become super-soldiers

Field Marshal Wavell did not like specialist forces, private armies.  He felt that normal infantry units were capable of doing the same job, if properly trained and led.  He allowed the creation of the SAS in the Western Desert, primarily to shut Stirling and his backers up.  When you read up the history of such units, they invariably spend an awful of time training and only occasionally performing as advertised on the battlefield.  I'm presently reading Bob Yunnies', "Fighting with Popski's Private Army."   Just as the original "Popski's Private Army" book showed, this specialist bunch didn't actually do much fighting.  They spent most of their time haring 'round and playing at soldiers.  In fact they held the record for the slowest crossing of the Sahara during the fighting in the Western Desert.  In Italy they spent most of their time trying to get behind the German lines and failing dismally.  They were like a bunch of kids playing at soldiers.

Is war meant to be an adventure or is it meant to be "politics by other means", as Clausewitz put it?  Are we meant to be funding a bunch of yahoos having fun or are they meant to be trying to achieve something of value to the nation as a whole?  War is both sometimes.   Playing soldier can be loads of fun.  War though is meant to be much more serious.  I believe that the SASR has gone too far to the fun side for the participants who hold themselves above the Rules (and yes, there are rules in wartime and they are reinforced by Military Law).   I don't think that means they, like the Canadian  Airborne Regiment that they need to be disbanded but they need to come down off their high horses.   

The early role of the 'soldier' was as a 'warrior' - the Protector of the Tribe and its Lands (livelihood). He would hunt the game and now in this day and age - he/she must Protect it also. We have now 'conquered' the Animal Kingdom, but now we have to not let it get destroyed.

The Warrior/Soldier had for the few thousand years plus being forced to serve the whims of religion and politics too.
(N. Hemisphere: Emperors, Generals. S.Hemisphere: Army, Soldiers, Warriors)

The Military and Conservation are the 'Marriage'.
Like Art and Aviation, Religion and Fashion (Spirituality),
like Farming & Maths (money grows on trees).
Music and Science.
Cooking and Medicine.
etc, etc

Here starts the Corruption of Evil in the Australian Military.
Where 'power' murders like a gutless sniper, hidden from its victim.

Even if he is found entirely guilty. Because the Australian Military would be found Guilty by Association. It will all be 'quietly dismissed' to the forgotten pile with all the atrocities committed against Aboriginals in the past.
Can't have them abos primatively eating Yams and Bogon Moths when they should be eating McDonalds and over-priced hipster dishes of minimalist displays.