#30. How very true.
Sigh. In nearly every armed conflict as long as there has been man, combatants have been cutting off the genitals of their vanquished foes and stuffing them in the mouths of the emasculated.
Everyone says the other side does it. My observation is not a moral relativism, it is just what I have come to believe in my reading, everything from Thucydides (they had propaganda back then, too) up to nearly any honest book written about modern conflicts.
From what I can tell, in war, nearly every evil thing happens to a greater or lesser degree on both sides. Yes, I do believe it is worse in some respects, more widespread in some respects, and part of military policy in some respects, but...they happen.
And things like that are used by propagandistic cannon fodder on both sides. Sometimes cartoonishly, sometimes professionally, and sometimes transparently. But it is always used.