Exactly.
There is a technical term for a people who aren’t willing to do whatever it takes to break the will of the enemy, for a people who are ‘above’ being thought of as psychopaths, people who play nicey-nice in the face of an enemy who glories in burning a caged man alive.
That term, when history bothers to remember them at all is: “the losers”.
I have no problem with the premier of the article.
My problem was with you advocating that we train our soldiers to torture enemy combatants to death instead of simply killing them.
Wanting to kill the enemy is wanting to “play nicey-nice”? Explain that one to me.