Dutton and Pezzullo talk up the beating drums of war - but it is not them who will have to fight Paul Daley Who’s ready to go over-the-top with Mike Pezzullo? Well, not so much with, perhaps. More like at his command (don’t he just wish!) – in a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do kind of way. Yep, it was a terribly mournful but oh-so-rugged-talking home affairs secretary with an eye on the top defence bureaucrat’s job who took it as his solemn responsibility to pen a purple job applic ... err, essay, The Longing for Peace, the Curse of War, lamenting the nation’s potential sorrowful duty to dispatch troops to another war.