the only fools are the media and the moron libiots who point the finger and say "SEE!"....
What war does not have mistakes??
What war that takes longer thaen four hours goes exactly according to plan??
If they want to talk about mistakes, misinformation, griping soldiers see what happened on 6\6\44...but you know what?? They stuck with it and kicked azz!
The reason why our Military is the finest in the world is because we adapt to our mistakes.
In the Army we use, an AAR, After Action Review. That basically tells us what we did wrong and how to improve it.
Most other cultures and countries do not utilize this method. They uphold status and "never" being wrong. So, every engagement they do. They don't learn from it. Because they didn't do anything wrong.
We have made mistakes. And we will improve those. It is in our nature. But, don't fall for the cover of not making them. If you do. We will never improve our next problem.