Just exactly WHAT is Australia’s “mission” or goal in Afghanistan?

I mean apart from protecting the poppy crops and their transport?

Same is happening in Iraq, still. Protecting the oil flow and transport.

Australia’s mission in Afghanistan is to assist in the internation effort deny the Al Queda a base for terrorist operations and to protect the populace from the opression of the Taliban. Any more questions?

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That’s not an answer! How do you know when that ‘mission’ is completed?

What oppression? Who are the ones blowing the crap out of the Afghani civilians and news reporters? Did we have any Afghani refugees before the Yanks and we occupied and terrorised their nation? They were only just getting over the last lot of invaders, Russia.

And rubbish! It’s a NATO invasion and we are not part of NATO. Drugs, Surly, drugs.

Next.

Oh, Surly! Here you go, answer this one. Why is there a record crop of poppies now when under the Taliban there was none?