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Wouldn't that be convenient? Everyone who does horrible things is a psychopath? No. They're just people. People that bought the patriotism line, or who wanted out of poverty and were told this might be a way, or people who have some notion of honor or duty or what have you. They're you, with different social pressures. That's what the fight is against - not groups that find terrible people and cultivate them, but groups that can frame terrible things in ways that ordinary people find noble or worthy. Just as much as you yourself are not immune to propaganda, neither is anyone else.
But by that same coin psychopaths are also people, the soldiers killing innocents on the Caribbean they could have consciences. The soldiers who killed people in Iraq they were folks just like you and me, and normal every day peopled cheered on tv for the blood of innocents being spilled and every day normal people get indoctrinated by psycopathic systems to be the perfect psycho's that do it's bidding. Serial killers get caught and they seem perfectly normal and it turns out they had bodies under their house and so on. Nazis had families and friends and loved ones. Yes they are me. Except i haven't killed anyone. And i will call killers and thugs what they are: Psychos. And i hope they retain that level of humanity so that their crimes haunt them every day of their life.
But for what i've seen most of them they are not even haunted, they only get mad they don't get the praise they feel entitled to for being useful little psychos.
... You must not have spoken to many veterans then. Especially after the US withdrawals in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Suicide rates, poverty and trauma are quite high. You might enlist off the patriotism Kool-aid, but you sure don't believe in it after a tour.
Additionally, the US Department Of Defense is the world's largest employer. The percentage of soldiers in active combat roles is quite low all things considered, especially in the current day. Logistics, Intelligence, and Maintenance comprise the majority of roles.
Good to hear. Let's hope those ICE officers follow suit.