The recent controversy regarding Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney as a warhawk who has never faced the dangers of the wars she embraces has synthesized an issue that may be opaque to non-veterans: the extreme resentment many veterans of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) feel toward Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party.
Harris and the Democrats have created a perfect storm of veteran disdain in that they have succeeded in uniting three once-inapposite groups behind Harris: the neocons who started the GWOT, the media and Democrats who undermined the veterans’ GWOT missions, and the generals who failed again and again and again at bringing the GWOT to a successful conclusion.
Interesting article, but the author misses a key point. DoD was NOT in charge of the conflicts or outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Winning" and victory were never the goals. Senior careerist military officers simply carried out the dictates of the Chief of Mission/Station, and their wet nosed agents in the field.
Same theme as the iconic 1975 embassy extraction photo in the graphic, just different actors.