Re: that last question, I'd think eventually vets would balance respect for those strong security types with strong-security-but-lowering-our-foreign-involvement-unnecessarily. Instead it's always "thank us for our service" and "never forget", while

Three years later, Crenshaw says he supports the president’s policies, save for the trade warfare, but prefers to comport himself in a manner that is the total opposite of the commander in chief’s.

“His style is not my style,” Crenshaw says. “I’ll just say that. It’s never how I would conduct myself. But what readers of The Washington Post need to understand is that conservatives can hold multiple ideas in their head at the same time. We can be like, ‘Wow he shouldn’t have tweeted that’ and still support him . . . You can disapprove of what the president says every day, or that day, and still support his broader agenda.”

I mean, what the fuck is "his broader agenda"? killing decent healthcare/insurance, demonizing immigrants, getting us in highly disruptive trade wars, dismantling any environmental protections, hiring cronies, actively destroying rule of law, promoting overt lies as a basis for gutting precedents, and by the way, blowing out the budget with wanton trillion dollar tax cuts that Republicans decided they no longer need to budget for?
I guess I'm glad Mr. Houdini can hold multiple ideas inside his head, like "Screw the Country!!!" side by side with "Let's be Honorable!!!" as just 1 of a dozen paradoxical gems I don't think I can pull off.
To be clear, I don't really care that much what Trump tweets - that's his distractions - I care about the awful stuff he does. I disapprove of WHAT THE PRESIDENT *DOES* EVERY DAY. The results are out there. Own up, gentlemen.

I respect Mr. Crenshaw's sacrifice and the balls it took to put himself in that position, and the reasons for it. I of course respect his right to have whatever opinion he has. But I thought most soldiers knew you often have really shitty commanders that you might have to follow even if it's a suicide mission, but you don't have to "support" their idiocies as if you think say Gallipoli was anything but a collossal suicidal atrocity and brainfart. The same goes for Trump on an even greater scale. 3000 died in Puerto Rico, many for 0 reason short of lackadaisical complacence & indifference by Trump in not handling an obvious, well-forecasted emergency. The numbers who die from disruption of say health services or this gonzo trade war with China, Europe, Canada - all shoot-from-the-hip, unplanned "maverick" stuff - is a bit harder to calculate, but yes, there are real deaths along with bankruptcies and other suffering.

How about "never forget the list of lies Trump told in leading us down this rabbit hole"? How about never forget that we're supporting killing civilians in Yemen, all so he can increase arms sales to Saudi Arabia - is that a good noble use of America's strength projection? (note that when Trump was called out on it, he just had DoD come back and pull top secret support instead -  same shit, different day.