I've ran into this in theuk, in heated arguments with stupid civvies. There are two broad camps, the civvies who say thins like "Our soldiers are killing babies" and the camp that says "I'm glad our lads are out there killing those muslim bastards".
Neither is valid.
The general philosophy of the British army is to go out there and save lives. This often means that to save lives you need to take life, to fight the people who want to kill the people you have been deployd to save.
It's because our soldiers have such high standards and such a reputation that when someone goes bad, we make such a big deal about it.
It wasn't always that way, the concept of the modern, professional soldier is very much a 20th century creation.
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