What we weren't being told

A sequel of sorts to this post.

Wikileaks has done it again. This time, though.... they've REALLY done it:

"The US has emphatically restated its mission in Afghanistan while condemning the leaking of a trove of secret military field reports that lay bare the grim reality of the nine-year conflict, including the apparent duplicity of ally Pakistan. A statement by National Security Adviser General James Jones implied that the leaked material was out of date and had been overtaken by President Barack Obama's ''surge'' strategy, now under way. But the statement did not deny key judgments drawn from the 92,000 documents released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks: that the Pakistan military had been aiding insurgent groups and that coalition forces were struggling alongside an Afghan government, police force and army of questionable loyalty and competence."

You'll have heard or read all about it by now...

...how the Taliban are using heat-seeking missiles against allied aircraft, how the Pakistani intelligence service is playing both sides against the middle, how civilians have been killed in numbers far beyond those reported... how utterly screwed we are in the war in Afghanistan...

I want to believe there's a point to all this, but are our people (Australia is the biggest contributor of military to the effort outside of NATO) being killed over there just to save face with a protracted pullout and handover?