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Killing a man up close is a whole different thing to _potentially_ killing a mass of people who may or may not be 'down there'. Bombing and shelling provide and awful lot of plausible deniability and get-out clauses to hang your psychological well-being on.
It's harder to assassinate someone that shoot blindly into a crowd.
Executioners must have some incredible sense of duty, or total disregard for human life.
Hero or psycho...
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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