I get annoyed when people say war never solved anything, or all those people died in vain.

No matter which way you look at it, war is a catalyst (simple definition: Changes something without changing itself).

This is the way life works. Every event you as a person experience, every childhood tear, bruise, scrape, bashing whatever shapes who you are right now. Every little thing is integral to the end result. Everything you hear, experience, feel, see or participate in IS you. If you take one thing away, one little thing, the end result changes. Sometimes life changes or twists on the flip of a coin.

For example, grieving people who’s loved one (s) just died unexpectedly will always ponder the what if’s. What if he stayed here another 2 minutes he would have missed that truck. What if I did not have to stop for a pee, the danger would have passed. Life hangs on the flip of a coin.

Who among us is game enough to predict what would have happened, where humanity would be right now if brave heroes did not lay their lives down for an ideal during wartime and won for our side? In World War 2 maybe the Japanese who bombed Darwin only wanted to come ashore for fish and chips? Maybe they only wanted to open a Japanese restaurant? We will never know will we?

As I mentioned before, war is a catalyst, it changes everything without itself changing. War is horrible, tragic, atrocious, shocking, devastating but it is not and has never been “good for absolutely nothin” to coin a phrase.

If the Yanks didn’t develop a bomb first we may have lost WWII, maybe we would have lived under a very different system. Maybe people would have revolted and things might be even better than they turned out in reality. There is no way of knowing. What we do know, is that brave people gave their lives, their dreams their hopes and their futures for those who would come after them. There simply is no greater sacrifice.

There is no one alive today, not a soul who draws breath who can disagree that human kind is where it is right now, because of bloody vicious war. People can argue where they think we could be, but thats just speculation. Those who fought and died for the dream of a better future for their fellow man deserve nothing but the utmost respect of all who follow.

People like ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating should bear this in mind.

At a recent book launch, Mr Keating had said the idea of Gallipoli forging Australian identity was a myth, with nothing redeeming for the nation coming from the campaign.

8709 Australians died during the Gallipoli campaign and here is the ex Prime Minister telling all and sundry that they died for nothing.

The campaign may have been a failure, but no one died for nothing. Not one single person. They died for their dream. They died for their vision of a free Australia (something the likes of comrade Keating would remove in a heartbeat given the chance), they died for us. They died so scum sucking dog vomitus (classic Keating insults) like him can belittle their sacrifices, yet he is too arrogant self centered and sickeningly pompous to even recognize it.

Why the Gallipoli campaign of WWI resonated so much with the Australian people is because of it’s “against the odds” heroism. The stories got back of men jumping the wall into a hail of certain death never once retreating and who could not be stunned into total silence? Who could not be touched by their single minded bravery, their belief in the bigger picture and their willingness to lay their lives down for it?

Obviously Paul Keating for one, and many who share his rancid view.