The Left continues to use the Vietnam playbook. American soldiers are victims not heroes. The problem for the Left is that we have an all-volunteer force. It is no wonder that so many of them are calling for the draft. You can't have victims who are complicit in their own fate.
You and I belive that, but the lefties don't. Participation in making ones own misery is irrelevent to victimhood status. That may be the sentinel difference between libs and conservatives.
Accepting your statement above may be the definition of 'grown-up".