Many former military have spoken out in favor of our direction. Here is one big one.
General Tommy Franks
A lot of them do, but they are active duty and not supposed to dabble in politics (I believe).
He has his share of retired Generals that support him and Rumsfeld, it is the media bias that keeps you from hearing them.
Active-duty military members are proscribed from discussing politics publicly. Retirees are not, and many of us do speak out. Of course, high-ranking officers who support the president don't get the press that's given to those who criticize him.
There are active duty restrictions.
Those who are out of duty or have left the service are free to be political. Most of those speaking against the President are "Cold War" do nothing paper warriors.
In essence they need a jimmy carter style military.
Must like the state department saw the cold war as a safe permanent employment with perpetual negotiations and Ronald Reagan blew their careers away by winning the cold war.
These are incompetents vying for Rumsfelds job by promissing to bring back the carter years.