Jeremiah was a soldier.

Key Word - 'was'

I basically wrote about his fall from grace as he turned from an albeit gung-ho warrior into a genocidal warlord. He knew what he did was wrong, but it was okay since it was always for Aurenstrauss, his country. I think what really made him deplorable however was the fact that he honestly wasn't that bad of a guy. He just got caught up making moral compromises that led to bigger ones until he was slaughtering crowds of civilians and burning harbors.