It's perfectly understandable.
That's one of the things that makes following the CJCS's orders very difficult to do.
No Secretary of Defense would stand by for much of that sort of reply given to Rumsfeld by Pace. Having said that, lets just come on home now because everyday that passes, we apply more and more political correctness to our tactics. Put into plain English, we are denying ourselves the chance to win, just as we did in Vietnam. Lets learn from Vietnam and stop before 56,000 dead Americans result again.