Jokes aside, this is about to get nasty.
Whatever happens it's going to reverberate for years.
Either we're shown to be a bunch of muddle-headed soft-touches who will roll over anytime someone presents us with a sob story.
Or we're a bunch of hard-hearted bloody-handed killers (or enablers of same) who are willing to shed an enormous amount of blood to protect our borders.
Either way is going to change how the leadership of other countries view us and not so much change but set in stone the political divisions in our own country.
And what that will all lead to is impossible to predict.