"Achilles dragged Hector around the walls of Troy from the back of a chariot because he was so enraged by Hector’s killing of his best friend. Three millennia later, Somali fighters dragged a U.S. soldier through the streets of Mogadishu after shooting down a Black Hawk helicopter and killing 17other Americans" (Junger).
Dehumanization
Dehumanization is when one group denies the humanity of the other group, they equal them to lower class animals, vermins, insects or diseases. To the warlords and terrorist groups Somali's were known as "worthless." These terrorist did not care about Somalia's citizens, they did not care if one was suffering over a death or killing, they looked at these people and thought of one thing, how worthless they were. They did not care when one cried or filled with anger, instead they walked around and killed anything that moved. Being called worthless is the lowest of the low.