War is insanity even under the best of circumstances- and what constitutes "best circumstances" during a war is beyond me, since many would say the part when you're just sitting and waiting for the shit to hit is even worse than the actual fighting. Atrocities, of course, occur even under the most "just" and defensible of wars. So it comes as little surprise that a bunch of twenty year old's in an unjustifiable war with no real means of winning, somewhere in some godforsaken hillside just happen to bug out, lose it, and go down their own separate and equally insane road of destruction and homicide.
This is exactly what happens when you are put in an impossible situation, a situation that continues year after unrelentingly murderous year with no clear end in sight, no definition of victory and no clear distinctions between the bad guys you're supposed to kill, the blatantly corrupt guys you're sent to fight with- and the remaining innocents you're meant to "protect," and end up killing just the same- sometimes even on purpose. When everyone looks like everyone else, everyone can get shot, and everyone usually does.
I am by no way excusing these guys or their despicably heinous actions- I would have probably lost it way before them. And could only hope to be as brave as her...
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