I'm afraid you've got it the wrong way round. The detached non-emotional tone adopted in the recording doesn't contradict the assertion that fighters may adopt a detached attitude during conflict as a way of pushing down emotions.
I guess we project our prejudices into how we interpret the vid. Their job is to kill enemy combatants. Do you expect them to say "oh dear, we hit the people we were aiming at, how terrible". Of course not. To me the judgements on who and what to hit were verging on the 'trigger happy', but sorry, I didn't see or hear evil bloodthirsty yanqui imperialists.
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I'm afraid you've got it the wrong way round. The detached non-emotional tone adopted in the recording doesn't contradict the assertion that fighters may adopt a detached attitude during conflict as a way of pushing down emotions.
He's not detached and non-emotional, to me he sounds eager to kill, definitely not without emotion.
I guess we project our prejudices into how we interpret the vid. Their job is to kill enemy combatants. Do you expect them to say "oh dear, we hit the people we were aiming at, how terrible". Of course not. To me the judgements on who and what to hit were verging on the 'trigger happy', but sorry, I didn't see or hear evil bloodthirsty yanqui imperialists.