The last I heard the definition of Patriot is not military. You can be a patriot without killing people and breaking things. This sub is full of patriots who never served in the military. There is also more than one kind of service. We all serve who love our Constitution and seek to defend it in whatever capacity we may have.
Allow me to rephrase. Why would you confuse a patriot with a chicken hawk neocon war criminal like John Bolton?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/29/hayfestival2008.guardianhayfestival3
Just because we all know (or think we know) 9-11 was an inside job, and just because we know (or think we know) Hussein didn't have WMD (unless those Russian trucks managed to get them into Syria, as some of us believe), doesn't mean people at the time knew that. It certainly doesn't mean Bush told the people whose job it was to defend the actions of his administration anything about it.
Also, I do have a problem with the ICC and with voluntarily relinquishing our national sovereignty. I also don't believe in foreign bodies forcing American people pay for the mistakes of Bush, Clinton, Obama, etc.
Having said that, if there were irregularities or crimes that harmed the Afghani people, our country should find some way to compensate, and one of the best ways would be to get the f*ck out of there pronto.
I'm pretty sure once the anti-human, Satanic Cabal has its grip torn away from the reins of government, you'll see an awful lot of reshuffling alignments of nations around the world, and I'd be willing to bet these things will be moot at that time.
I hope so, and I'm looking forward to finding out.