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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I don't know during WWII the Japanese told the residents of Iwo Jima and Okanawa that the US Marines must eat their mother and father to become Marines and they committed mass suicide when the Marines over ran the island.

given the that the terrorists /insurgency members commit suicide during attacks on the military/police/civilians all too frequently etc to start off with--making neutrals/friendlys in the conflict zones feel like they're liable to get killed no matter what happens isn't going to discourage them from taking similar approachs to the situation--there's such a thing as taking this "we're all hard-nuts and we're gonna take you out" stuff too far..no one can argue with the feeling of the troops who took retribution in this manner for the killing of their friends--
but if highly trained, highly disciplined, profesional troops, with a chain of command to answer too, have issues with maintaining discipline when faced with the loss of a close friend --why on earth do we expect civilians with no such training ,discipline or chain of command to behave as if it's perfectly acceptable for their loved one's, family members , even children to get killed----it's not rocket science