re: The scent of incomprehension
That you can somehow draw an equivalence between masked adults waylaying school children and sawing their heads off for being the wrong religion, and soldiers at war dying in battle in order to try and free a nation from exactly such people, shows a moral and philosophical mental disconnect so huge I can't even think how to address it.
If you are so hard over on it, the graphic photos are here, and here, and they're from Reuters.