Give them a break! They are young and cringe. Who hasnt done a little genocide, and bombing some infants during their youth? They will get over their Nazi phase.
I can't imagine straight-out-of-high-school 18-year-old me even coming as close to being as demonic as the IDF has been. I'm sure many other people couldn't either, but I can only speak for myself ultimately.
Yes I agree. They call the teens kids as if they didn't have cognitive reasoning. The main difference between a child and a teen is that they can think for them selves.
If bombing people is what they think is correct, then they where either raised wrong when they where kids, or just brainwashed to think the evil way.
People still operate in their material interests, the justification comes afterward. The "brainwashing" is more of a post-conclusion justification, a dehumanizing of the "enemy" to justify the economic interests of settler colonialism and maintaining an Imperialist Foothold for the American Empire.
Counter point, I was a teen/early 20 something in Iraq... I deserved to be brutally killed by the people of Iraq, that would have been fair and just.
Glad I didn't get smoked though, I've made some positive changes.
Edit: I was also pretty fucked up and sick from being abused and raised in a cult - guess what, still didn't maraud civilians. I had opportunities where I could have unloaded on people that seemed threatening and the military would have probably run cover for me and my team... Still didn't kill anyone.
Another 2 trillion dollars to display professionalism found in isis. You can be honest and say "they like to do and show their atrocities while we like to see their atrocities, do not look at something we intend for domestic audience"
When I was in the service we had whole courses on Geneva Conventions laws. Our ID was a called a Geneva Conventions Identification Card and on the back of it had Geneva Conventions information in case we were ever captured.
We were taught, along with the 18 year olds, to treat a prisoner with resepct and not to loot civillian places or shoot obvious medical unit stuff like Medics, Ambulances, Hospitals, Schools, Churches.
If we were caught acting like that we would be court martialed or punished. We were expected to behave better.