I talk to Afghanistan vets at least once per week.
And we talk about that war.
Not one of them has ever said anything resembling your contention that we have to honor the fallen by staying and fighting.
Every comment I’ve heard from them is along the lines of we should get out now. Or, what the hell were they thinking when we went there in the first place...
I’m in a group discussion at the VA. Lot’s of those guys there.
Where the hell did you come up with this silly idea about honoring fallen vets by sentencing more to die? That is not based on any military culture I’ve ever been exposed to.
You’re inventing silly shit from your own dreamland.
I too talk to Vets with Iraq and Afghan experience. They do complain about many of the controls on operations, but they mostly do not want to give up the honor of our fallen to a surrender to the Taliban. It is the controls on our operations that hamstring our troops a lot - making them unable to make always make the fight they are capable of. Many of those problems began under Obama and the DOJ has not quit many of them under Trump. And frustration with that is understandable. They also have issues with our inability to absolutely vet Afghans that work with us, with too many “friendly fire” incidents from Afghans who switched loyalties. But those frustration do not universally produce a demand from all our troops that we quit and leave our fallen unrewarded for their sacrifice.