I think these pundits think they can analyze political
movements/wars/social changes as if there is no emotional
or personal toll going on. So to them, calling someone a
“hero” is somehow justifying the action the person was
involved in.
Hayes sounds like a “smart” guy who has absolutely no life experience
at all. He just repeats those analytical platitudes he read
in his “studies”...
Inexperienced , pedantic, hopefully unemployed soon.
Hayes is a jerk to make the comments he made on the day he made them.
I consider my father my hero as much for working 30 years in a job he hated in order to feed his family as I do for his Army service in WW2.