My dad is a big War buff (he doesn't sit in his room waving around gun replicas and being pro-war or anything; in fact he's the most anti-war person I know), he has hundreds, and I mean
hundreds of books on almost any war in the modern world, mainly on WW2. Now, I'm not in any way condoning anything done by Keamy and/or soldiers who have killed and maimed, but there is a problem, especially amongst mercinaries and the like, of unquestioning loyality. There are still men around today who were involved in war atrocities, who are neutral about what they did and insist that 'they were just following orders', that it wasn't them
themselves who killed, but the men who told them to do so (ref to Ben directly blaming Widmore for Alex's death) It would explain Keamy's apparent not-botheredness (lol I can't think of another word
) of shooting Alex like that. Some soldiers displace themselves emotionally from what is going on and believe they're just the 'middle-man', who shouldn't take much of the blame. One example to contradict me is Vietnam, where some soliders just went off to do what they thought was right after losing contact with the people in charge, but then again at the same time, they thought they were following orders. Even if they had gone a bit looped.
Again, not condoning murdering 16 year olds. No lynching just yet
