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Just the western world's obsession with "heroes". It's not a surprise that we train men (mostly) to be killers and train the "best" of those into special forces to do seemingly impossible things (the VC citation for Ben Roberts Smith reads like an over the top war movie for example) and then they step over a line.
The military/government/media paints war as something clean in the modern era but the truth is a lot more murky.
Who’d have thought it;
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/01/ben-roberts-smith-loses-defamation-case-with-judge-saying-newspapers-established-truth-of-some-murders