[ FF ] `` The weapon that won the war '' ( Feedback for every response . ) 400 words or less .

Forgiveness is a weapon that never was. You don ’ t guilt people you ’ ve forgiven into stopping their evil deeds and surrendering. It doesn ’ t work that way. It just gives the civilians something to gawk about while you execute combatants. It was used to its maximum capacity during the war of 2115 by the Worms. The Worms as a collective were disorganized but tried new tactics from other cells when they were effective, which was rare. 
 
 This one group, The Fist of the Righteous got it into their heads that if the peaceful movements worked before they would work again. Needless to say they didn ’ t. Oh sure, a bunch of the civilians were up in arms about it when we rolled over compounds without resistance. It got bad for a while and some of the Squeeks got nervous about the public turning on us but who cares. It ’ s not like they had anything they could throw at us at the time so we got more vicious. 
 
 We started hitting them hard. It got to the point where we were getting creative in taking them out. Gas, fires, B-Ts, you name it we tried it. We aired it over the Sting, everyone saw it. A Squeek got the idea that we should use the infiltrated Worm Sects to convince the rest to just keel over for us. It worked brilliantly; the Worms tried to outdo each other to the point that some were just offing themselves to “ send a message. ” It was hilarious. Soon the only worms left were the kind that preached forgiveness so they were easy targets after we took out the actual threats. 
 
 See the problem was that most of the Units in the Force lost people to the Worms. We made sure that the people doing the dirty work were not the type to fall for Forgiveness. Every time a Worm burned or EQ ’ ed from the Hares, morale went up. Slosh addiction rates plummeted among the men because morale was so high. We didn ’ t de-classify this until after the Chief died but we had the techs filter out forgiveness in the units during most of the war. Forgiveness is no use when your enemy can ’ t and won ’ t forgive you and loves your pain. It lost them the war but it won our men some retribution. 

