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This kind of thing shouldn't surprise anyone. Soldiers are tools of death; people are not built into soldiers to be saviours or heros or good role models (which is not to say that they can't be). The point of making a soldier is to make someone who kills other people, and when you have someone who's full time job is to kill people, and who is involved in a long-running conflict, then this kind of crap should be expected. I'm not condoning it, but the kind of shock and horror that people express at these kinds of things always strikes me as naive.
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