Why is it that the Modern Warfare 2 "No Russian" scene went too far?

[nightsurge]

Demotruk said:

nightsurge said:

You have the outright option to skip that scene entirely.  And if you don't skip it, you are not forced to pull the trigger of your gun.  They never even explicitly tell you to kill anyone or try to hold you to some sort of duty... the only thing they say is "Remember, no Russian."

There is a cut scene leading up to it...

 

In that they talk about how morality is blurred, sometimes you just have to do horrific things to save larger numbers of people etc., I can't remember exactly what they say but I got the distinct impression that I was being expected to do something morally "grey" (it's not really that grey at all) in the next section.

Oh, that was the commander/general talking to you, not the terrorists.  That's just being realistic as you don't expect CIA or undercover agents to always do what's "right" do you?  The whole part of being so deap undercover is that you have to be believable.

As for the actual mission, no one says or forces you to do anything.  It's entirely your choice.