I thought it was supposed to be a kind of prelude to Kurtz, like these american military arseholes high on their own superiority and freed from normal restraints will act out as the psychopathic monsters they actually are. Like coming in and blowing up a village full of civilians while playing fucking Wagner just so you can go surfing is kinda the same pathology as starting a crazy jungle murder cult worshipping you as some sort of god

It's like poetry, it rhymes, is what I'm saying