http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/brett-mason/ Brett Mason is Shadow Minister for Universities and Research and a Senator for Queensland. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/end-afghanistan-and-aid-historys-most-monstrous-regime/ I have listened with great interest to this week’s parliamentary debate about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan, just as I have listened with great interest to this debate for the past nine years, since October 7th, 2001, when Operation Enduring Freedom was launched by the United States and its allies, including Australia, so that freedom so bravely won by the people of Afghanistan from communist oppression, and so cruelly lost over the following decade to civil war and Taliban misrule, may indeed return, and this time endure. I have listened to this debate and heard many arguments that we should abandon our mission in Afghanistan.  Some of these arguments are passionate, others cold and rational; some seem sincere, while others callous. And all of them are wrong. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Brett Mason) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/end-afghanistan-and-aid-historys-most-monstrous-regime/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/end-afghanistan-and-aid-historys-most-monstrous-regime/#item4360 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:34 +0000 Brett Mason | Author bios | The Punch