Paul Joseph Watson is showing in his article that military soldiers are normal individuals that are put in situations that they can not do anything about but do what they were told. Watson is revealing a story of an Iraq war veteran named Daniel Somers who committed suicide after fighting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “ Somers’ suicide note is a powerful indictment of the invasion of Iraq and how it ruined the lives of both countless millions of Iraqis as well as innumerable US troops sent in to do the dirty work of the military-industrial complex.” …show more content…
These three traits helped the soldiers to torture the prisoners thinking that they were doing their jobs and not thinking that they are people with family and life.
Similar to what happened in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where soldiers were …show more content…
She answer her question with a research paper “‘You Know What to Do With Them’: The Formulation of Orders and Engagement in War Crimes”, written by Sophie Richardot, a social psychologist at Université de Picardie, France,. In Richard's research paper, Chang found five clear formulations of orders that provide a psychological protection for lower rank military soldiers to justify their actions and follow the order. Also in an email sent by Richardot to Chang, she explain how authorities use psychological schemes to persuade the soldiers to commit such crimes that known as war