The thing is that you always expect for you and your people to be "above" the things shown in the newspaper and on TV.
Yes, you're smart enought to understand that if your country is involved in a war there will be causalties, both sides, but you still don't want your brother, friend, neighboor to die or be badly injured.
You're smart enough to understand (even if you never were in the army) that theses things happen, if caught, your soldiers might be tortured or killed (and it goes both sides).
Deep down inside though, more that "winning the war" what you expect is for your boys to come back safe. And since you are taught that you are the good ones (as in : ennemy is bad), you don't expect good people to act like this, you don't expect your boys to commit such acts (as in : only the ennemy would be low enough to do this).
Pardon my German...
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