"Suck up" is an epithet which presumes you think his attitude *must* derive from a naive desire to ingratiate himself with (a mob). So that: they will 'like him' enough - not to behave like mobs everywhere.

I say an equally reasonable explanation for his feeling remorse (before the exigency) is: that which he observed of the 'collateral damage' inflicted. While this may not be an emotion which is handy - when you ought to be thinking of fending of a mad dog - it is a quite reasonable reaction to seeing the effects on actual humans, of massive weapons dropped anonymously from very safe heights. At least to anyone with a normal emotional center.

ie You weren't there and you don't know this man and what he saw.

Merely because you can cheerfully reduce all human motivation to reward/punishment logic in a mercantile model - does not mean that your model doesn't

Suck.


Ashton