Are the "they" in your sentence refering to Al or his handlers? There is a difference.
Al should not be telling troops they are losing the war and he shouldn't allow those associated with his tour to say demoralizing comments. We also should not attribute something to Al that he did not say himself. Al can be easily defeated in the arena of ideas without false attributions. The Left needs to lie and distort Limbaugh.
He came back from chow and said "I just had a run in with Al Franken at chow. He told me we were losing the war." and then we all had him flesh it out with what you see here. This is what Major Patience related to us after eating at the same table as Al and his 'people'.