The frustration Dex must feel is that the sacrifice of American blood and treasure ended up being nothing but simply outscoring your opponent for a quarter or half. A rally.
The wrench in the gears was Barack Hussein Obama. For no other Democrat president would have abandoned Iraq or assisted in re-writing the Islamic world map.
THAT makes Dex and many of us mad as hell, because we interpret that as meaning all those who paid the ultimate price, did so in vain.
And I'm not some anti-war hippie of the 60's. I'm all for killing the hell out of them.
Trust me, I know that it was Hussein who deliberately destroyed what was accomplished in Iraq.
And it makes me furious as well because, even though Dex diminished the anguish of having a child in a war, it was horrific for us while our son was deployed............ twice. Voluntarily. And it's unbearable to realize that his sacrifice (and ours) was squandered by the punk in the WH.
But my point is, just as I am proud of every one of our troops who served because their mission WAS noble, I think Dex should be proud of his service as well. I don't know how you get there with a traitor like Obama as CinC, but he needs to get there. He needs to remember why he signed up in the first place and remember that what he did was a good thing, in spite of Obama's despicable destruction of the successful mission after the fact.
It's one thing to think it may have not been the right decision in retrospect. It's quite another to use the language Dex has used to diminish the importance of what was done, and belittle those who still think it was the right thing as somehow being 'ignorant.'