What good is honour anyways

If you believe stuff.co,.nz.. (which is a whole other issue) Prime Minister John Key said this afternoon that New Zealand would not be honouring the deaths of Leon Smith, Doug Grant and Tim O'Donnell if New Zealand pulled its troops out.

In my opinion, this is what the Prime Minister of New Zealand should have said:
The New Zealand government does not enter into, and remain in conflicts for the sake of “honour”. There are specific geopolitical reasons why the New Zealand government chooses to enter into armed conflict, and these reasons are constantly reviewed with respect to continued participation in any operation theatre. Armed intervention should always be seen as a last resort, and not a course of action that is chosen based on saving face, avoiding shame or preserving “honour”, there is too much at stake in terms of human life, for us to pursue international politics on the basis of such things.