There are a lot more of the "country and people first" folk within the DC Beltway and elsewhere than the Fourth Estate will ever portray, simply because portraying those folk doesn't create sensationalism, and sensationalism sells advertising space, and advertising $$$ is what feeds the the news peacocks.

People who have never spent a minute in harms way lack credibility in preaching tactics and strategy to people with the General's (and his staff's) credentials, training and experience. It would be like "me" telling a surgeon the better way to hold a scalpel and how to recognize healthy versus sick organs. The prattling of the amateurs only gives the professionals more credence.