there were no video cameras back then
Back when people had a sense of honor, grovelling at the feet of your enemy was worse than death.
Honor is what you have left when you are utterly alone--without TV cameras and without hope. It seems to me that it would be easier to put on a brave face in front of the cameras and break down alone.
How could he stand to live after his pleading and abject grovelling has been seen around the world. How can a person live with that?
I realize I'm speaking a foreign language to the thereputic televised culture.
It's going to be impossible to win this war without regaining a sense of honor.
And if there were vidio cameras back then, the station that aired this stuff would have been destroyed.
Once evil people are allowed to get their way by threatening one man or thousands, with death-the monsters will rule the world.
Death will eventually come to us all. Is buying one person twenty more years on this planet, worth sentencing civilization to death over?