They don't. For instance, to them backing out of a losing cause is "surrender", not withdrawal. (I've withdrawn before, I've gotten the hell out of there not caring how I looked, what the badguys thought, damned glad to have so many souls connected to so many bodies, I quit and we ran. I wasn't aware of "surrendering". Conservatives would describe me as one who "surrendered".)

You were in the military. You know what a "withdrawal" is. MacArthur withdrew from the Philippines. He came back.

The Democratic Party and American liberals advocated leaving Iraq forever at the height of the battle and letting the enemy take the country. Ask another veteran what that's called. If not surrender, at the very least unilateral capitulation.

That the Democrats and their allies were proven dead wrong on this is one of the most obvious and yet most ignored things about the entire war effort.

There are elections in Iraq in 17 days. You would never know it from the U.S. media.