[Skybird]

It may be a reply to Obama's announcement to send 2500 special forces and instructors to Australia.

Anyhow, the job of any armed forces is to fight war. And in peacetimes to prepare for war by training how to fight it. It's job is not to drill waterholes and build hospitals in other nations, it'S job is not to create new forms of social life in foreign cultures, or to build schools. The decision over war and peace is made by politicians. But the decision on what the role of the armed forces should be, must n ot be made anymore, since that is already being answered by calling an army an army, and not the boyscouts, the Technisches Hilfswerk, the social engineering brigade or the human developement chorps.

Especially Germans have too many bees in their bonnets over what role the armed forces should (=could) play. Aid work and developement organisations build. Armies destroy (what is or belongs to the enemy).