Thug culture, not a warrior culture, to blame

“Losers” commit war crimes and are punished and pilloried in news articles, books, documentaries and movies while cover-ups by the victors of their atrocities ensure the winners evade justice. 

Cover-ups generally work. Australian war crimes against civilians are rarely exposed unless you happen to stumble across them such as the barely known 101-year-old ANZAC massacre of Palestinian male villagers of Sarafand.

The AFP’s cloddish raid on the ABC to secure and cover-up the Afghan Files on war crimes perpetrated by 25 members of the SAS inadvertently revealed the seriousness of the crimes.

The Afghan Files whistleblower David McBride’s arrest and prosecution on the faux grounds of being a ‘national security’ threat…