I had never made any connection between those movies. So Bridges was morally good--selfless--intentions (ensuring the men under his command would retain their human dignity in the face of brutally de-humanizing conditions) that became morally misguided because Nicholson lost sight of the morally good (fighting evil) larger context, while Paths was morally bad--self-serving--intentions pursued via an artificial form of 'moral rectitude' (falsely equated with human dignity) within a brutally de-humanizing, immoral larger context (fighting for 'nationalism': of all things, a belief that people who live in a particular geographical area are therefore intrinsically superior to all others).

Did a really write that as a single sentence? Oh, well.