The troops have thicker skin than that. They don't care what pontificating idiots (and I include myself in that category at times) say in cyberspace. They're too busy doing their jobs.
1) They do. 2) And they might not "care what the pontificating idiots say," but they know that it is making their job harder (and more dangerous) to do. And I'll bet they wish the "pontificating idiots" would shut the hell up and get behind them and their mission.