Citizen Pained

The protagonist, tasked with a heroic level military mission, wasn't opposed to dirty war when she believed participating in it would reunite her with her child. This could've been a story about the human all-but-impossible-to-resist drive to be with our loved ones, even if it will kill or seriously harm many others (as in, global level harm) and even if it is all-but-certain to harm ourselves AND our loved ones - LATER, though, not immediately. This could've been a story about how trauma can make people easier to exploit and manipulate, about how quickly they can go from being an apparently integrated, loving, thinking person to a fractured, hardened instrument of war. It deserved a better ending. Also, it dragged in spots (and I am a patient person). "There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner Who would hurt all mankind Just to save his own" --Curtis Mayfield