No one knows this more than Australians. We've been hit harder than anywhere.

However, this is war. If you can save 1000 in a city, or 10,000, but launching the attack would mean that you lose the war and millions end up dying, what do you do?

This is what is hard and painful.

Think about WW2. They had to plan for Normandy, and the invasion, over months and years. All that time, people were dying in Europe, starving, suffering, etc. But if they acted prematurely, or wrongly, then the consequences would be much, much worse.

FOr me, I try to fathom the heart and mind of those calling the shots. How torturous it must be to know that millions are suffering, and you cannot do anything about it, because the stakes are too high (hundreds of millions). A painful place to be in surely. We should be grateful that we don't have to carry that responsibility. We are only responsible to act on our own level, as best we can.