I will check it out soon and post another comment after this one, magodis. But, lets just say that 'one shouldn't count all there eggs in one basket.' Even in the United States Army and in the Canadian Army, there has been significant war crimes carried out by soldiers alone behind the government's back such as senseless slayings, rape and torture. This type of wrongful doings by military soldiers have a recorded history pattern dating back to the WW1-WW2 era as well as Hitler and the Nazi as an exception.
The reason for the soldiers to act this way? Its definitely not propaganda my fellow hubber. Its varying degree of psychological disorders. One of them PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). This is a fact I strongly believe that is relevant to many post-war aftermaths for soldiers as well as during war. I also know this as a strong fact because many people have written thesis papers, well documented research essays, and having taken psychology myself for a double major at some point, it has been tested by many psychologists to conduct experiments of whether "Higher Authority Constitutes Obedience." The the result is true, meaning, it does in fact do that as Hitler did as well as the Nuremberg Trials, (check YouTube). In other words, when a government orders its troops to destroy places, kill people, torture and take over, those troops will do it with no questions asked because if they don't they themselves will face consequences such as disgracing the honor of the country by opposing it when its there own birth-right to guard. There can be other reasons of there own, but nothing that justifies the right to kill another unless its a case of 'you kill me or I kill you' sort of thing (survivor)
Type in the quote, "Higher Authority Constitutes Obedience" on YouTube and you'll find an overflowing amount of clips of actual research in regards to the corruption of governments to its soldiers. This something that was concluded a very long time ago from being propaganda to corruption with the latter being chosen as something that made a great deal of sense and knowledge of understanding of the human mind and behavior (psychology) rather than pointing a finger at propaganda for everything.
If this was a propaganda, is 9/11 propaganda? Hell no! Its the same thing around the globe with the government corruption and the stupid terrorists.
I agree with you on other things that you say such as the dumb LTTE. They are terrorists. I did a great deal of research on the leader of the terrorist organization and his history in the decades long war in Sri Lanka and found something you'd find intriguing as well as understanding why I support some of the statements you've made in your argument and its that Nova Scotia (UN) offered to step in and argue for this guy and give a small independent state and enter the governing body as a political figure with a small spot to start out with. This was also something that the Sri Lankan government also thought was a great idea. However, what did the LTTE leader think? He declined and went and bombed an entire airport or railway station in either Sri Lanka or upper India. I can't recall, but you'd know which one it was since I stopped caring about this as both sides have made me feel lost about whether I'd ever like to give support or even visit one day.
P.S. We should right an article together if this issue ever decides to be a big deal again on the news as it was in 2009-2010.
