They are the most willing of recruits in any
conflict for youth revel in action and violence
believing themselves invulnerable to consequences
such that striking fear into others, pillaging and
destruction satisfies a deep-seated loathing for
authority and discipline other than that imposed
in a field of combat. To the indoctrinated and
habituated to solving problems with physical
violence there is no need to justify psychopathy
nor is there a thought of restraint from harming
the innocent regarded as disposable shields when
the attacked respond in like kind endangering
non-combatants whose deaths become another
deadly arrow in the quiver of blame cast on others.
Visualizing themselves as heroes they pose fully
armed with high-powered submachines across
their muscled chests, champions of death, able
and aching to deliver vengeance for imagined acts
of historical disadvantage they have been tasked
to remedy. They prowl among their tribe's quiet
civilians, ingratiate themselves as heroes, amass
weapons stores and assault centres within schools
hospitals and mosques, attacking the enemy then
fading into sheltered safety leaving the mass of
civil old and young to face the consequences they
evade in a never-ending cycle of psychotic chaos.
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