buddy:

That is the thing I think many of us have been struggling with since 9/11. The MSM’s predominant attitude regarding the WOT brings back to me all of the cognitive dissonance Blue describes so well about TET which I experienced first hand when I returned to The World in May 1968. I was sure we had won a great victory. I was astonished to hear everyone at home, including loved ones and family, thought we had lost and wanted to throw in the towel.

Then with the likes of Fonda and Kerry, we start hearing we were war criminals. As a JAG officer in the central highlands, I investigated a number of alleged war crime incidents. We prosecuted those that needed prosecuting. The idea that there was wholesale criminal activity going on was complete BS. After I was released from active duty, in 1970, I ignored it all and successfully repressed it until 2001.