Guess you don't remember the reports of the troops fashioning their own vehicle armor due to lack of proper equipment. I do.
Now if that ain't stabbing a solder in the back I dunno what is.
"Dear soldiers:
Hi! we're going to send you into a shitty region of the world, in order to... (fill in the blank with some reason, possibly made-up), and to achieve that task, we'll provide
-less troops than you need
-less equipment than you need
-less permissions than you need to fight a "war"
and, as an add-on bonus, we really haven't done our homework in understanding the area we're sending you into, so our strategies will flounder for a while, and a buncha you will get blown up and shot... but you'll figure out what to do..."
sorry gonz, despite your impassioned accusations of backstabbing in 2007 - launched from a couch in indiana no less - the real, foundational betrayal happened quite some time ago. and whatever nonbinding imaginary resolution the dems wanna push doesn't change that, and while it ain't exactly cool, it's superficial bullshit, not at all having the gravity of
the original betrayal.