From a national point of view a dead solider is much prefered to a captured one.
Hundreds of soliders died in Lebanon, 10 were captured alive.
The 10 captives caused more demage, in tactical and moral terms than hundreds of dead soliders. I'm not even talking about leaked information.
Being dead is probably better for the army, the state, the families and the soliders themselves.

I'm not saying that soliders should kill themselves, giving soliders cyanide will cause infinite moral damage. I'm saying that your cynicism has no place - we do prefer dead soliders - and it has nothing to do with erection.

You think the pig is a joke?
You must be aware that most terrorists are deaply religious muslims - they take pigs more seriosly than you do.
Ask any religious jew how would he feel about being buried with a pig.
This is a serious threat.
More than that - it is proven to work. Read a bit about russian-muslim wars.

And to answer a cheap demagogic point about the use of cyclone-B:
I agree that any method of mass killing is as bad as another.
However most of us oppose the Nazis not because they used a certain method of killing but because they were after Genocide. I'm against genocide. I don't want to kill all arabs. I want to live in peace with arabs. To that end I suggest killing as many trouble makers as we can, and then giving land, money, guns, food, work, rights and whatever else to whoever is after peace.
But war must be effective - and I think that buring with a pig is more effective than just killing so in the long run it will reduce violance and resuce number of casualities, and increase chance of peace - which is what we want.

When religious fanatics will be afraid to be killed by Israel - then we'll have a chance for real peace.