Remember those genocidally tongue-in-cheek Corporate War recruitment ads in the 1997 Paul Verhoeven film STARSHIP TROOPERS.
"A good bug is a dead bug!" and all'a that...
Even the driving musical score and the ordo ab choa War is Peace message remains, fifteen years on, as we contemplate the Kony2012-inspired invasion of Africa.
Have we learned NOTHING? Hell, yeah!
Well, we've learned that it's nice to have a cup of tea and a slice of cake while you're giving information to the FETs about where your rebel husband might have holed up since All Out Torture by the male members of your squad was frowned upon by Congress.
"I tested them, I gave them their task and purpose," or to put it bluntly, they got us good intel, they softened the enemy.
"Just the smile counts, it's a foot in the door," isn't that the smile of an assassin?