Excellent job. Another basic point is that people suffer and die in wars. That may be news to some Americans, but it is true. There are many historians who can attest.
But the American media can't get over the idea of a sterile war with no casualties. Someone dead means there is someone to blame.
Lefties also can't grasp that there are those of us willing to risk 'our lives, our fourtunes, our sacred honor' for this country. *sigh* That is where I get discouraged.