Larken, I was in the ARMY for 16 years, and I totally agree with this post. They would always tell ya, "your not paid to think soldier" and often you are provided with your missions, sent to your assignment and told who they enemy is, they rarely if ever provided any background information.

Now it has even become much more simpler, they only have to run with the same narrative. "These guys are terrorists, they will kill you, your family, and the American way of life, they must be killed"

The young soldier, the Paladin of Freedom will go where they tell them too, and kill who we are told too. It is only later when they think about what happened and they have to justify it in their mind, and they can't is when the pain of war sets in. Call it PTSD, call it what you will.