Atrocities are Good, Massacres are even Better!
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2012-03-24

As far as the military is concerned, atrocities and massacres have their good sides. Such misdeeds and abuse serve important strategic goals. They boost the morale of the troops and let them blow off steam; they deter would-be insurgents; they teach the Natives who is boss. The signal that such atrocities send is that the soldiery will stop at nothing and will observe no law when it is out to subdue a hostile population. This is why perpetrators of such deeds -- if they belong to a victorious army - are never punished properly and proportionately.