Character: Todd Vainio

It's as old as... I don't know, probably as old as war itself. It's fear, dude, just fear and don't need to be fucking Confucius to know: the point of war is not to kill or maim the guy, but to scare him and be done with it. To break the spirit, that's what does every successful army since fighting tribal coloring and ending with "blitzkrieg," or... what was the name of the first phase of the second Gulf war, "Shock and awe"? Well, "Shock and awe"!