About Transforming into Devils

It's Ramadan.
Every year I start the month by strictly deciding not to change my sleep pattern. Every year I dramatically change it!
So this explains why when today's trial was on I was deeply asleep and was planning to stay that way.
I've watched part of the earlier session and I expected this one would be pretty much the same so I didn't feel like waking up to watch at all. Still, I felt like it was my duty to see this trial , so I opened my eyes, took one look at all of them. One in bed and doesn't seem to mind all the folks directly staring at him or the millions of folks indirectly staring at him through TV, and the other two mockingly eying the spectators with Al- Qur'an in their hands. Then I was straight back to bed.

Dreams, dreams, dreams.

The TV is very loud, I can hear all the screaming angry voices in my sleep. They're all joining in the dream. Thoughts and impressions from the quick glimpse I had, they're also joining in.

He was a military aviator (or is it a fighter pilot? or is it both? I don't know). He fought the war. On that day he got on that plane knowing he might never come back and yet he did it. He knew he could die. He came back as a war hero, receiving the endless respect and admiration of his people.
How could he later betray these people? How did he turn into a traitor and a monstrously selfish dictator who crashed an entire country under his feet? Crashed Egypt under his feet. The same country he fought to free.
How can you be ready to give your life away to protect something, and then you yourself carry out to the heart the mission of mercilessly destroying it?
How do people change that much? How do they turn into other people?
I can't understand.

Is it true that people only go to war out of pure patriotism and love for their country or beliefs? I have no idea. I've never witnessed a war or been to a war (thankfully), but I can't understand why would you risk your own life, or risk living with a severe disability, unless you know that if you die or get disabled, you won't feel anger or remorse, you need to be sure that you'll feel satisfied and relived. Yes, relieved. There is no other way to accept death or disability unless you're so committed to your beliefs that nothing would relief you other than fulfilling them even if the price was your very own life.
How could you rise to such spirits then fall to the extreme opposite?
I can't understand.

People don't always go to war for that, I know, though I can't understand how.

We all know that there was nothing left to millions to live on except cracks of bread (if they could find them). In Ramadan, it was crystal clear with all the ads. urging people to donate money for all sorts of charity that this country was being run by the people. The people who can took over to save as much as they can of the people who can't from starving to death. They even took over for health, education and sports projects. Few years ago, Gamal Mubarak (the man carrying Al-Qu'ran today) wanted to start a governmental project to collect the charity money from the people (because the government knows better how to distribute it). Why would all of this charity money be wasted on the starving ragged masses? They wanted to take that away too.
I don't understand how can people be so monstrous, so merciless, and be all of this to their own people. Call me cheesy, naive or whatever but I just can't understand.

What we're witnessing must be a wake up call to us all.

Some of us can't imagine how being a merciless devil can be done, and at the same time some of us do it without the slightest difficulty. Some of us transform between the two types.
No grantees for who the person you'll wake up to be tomorrow, is there?
How do I know I won't transform?

Ya Allah, you're my only hope that I won't.