What a shimozzle

Let me briefly again touch on the embarrasing improper and untimely withdrawal of the Austrian contingent of the UN  troops.

Now the Austrian Chancellor claims that there was nothing improper since the situation on the Golan Heights to which they were detached as observers has changed and that therefore the contract is  Null and Void and its conditions need no longer be observed by the parties.
What a cop-out this is. I find it difficult to believe that the political leader of a country can use such a flimsy excuse to cover up the incompetence of his administration.

A contingent of soldiers from the Fidschi Islands will now take the place of the Austrians. Will they also state that due to the dangerous situation they shall not be bound by a contract?

You know for whom I feel sorry? 
I feel sorry for the Austrian soldiers, who I am sure are as good and brave  as those of  any other country. The decision to abandon their position, I suspect, was not a military decision, but a political one.
I am certain that, had they been asked, the Austrians would have stayed and continued to help keeping the peace in this God -forsaken neck of the woods.
The Politicians make the decisions and the Military MUST obey.
It is a crying shame that some Newspaper articles referred to this withdrawal as an act of cowardice.
It was no such thing.
It was an act of political expediency which the Generals and the Privates have to follow.
There is simply no choice if we want to preserve our status of a Democracy.