"What we're seeing now is in large part the unintended consequence of the American public's understandable war-weariness," Doug Wilson, a former assistant secretary of defense for public affairs and now a senior fellow at the Truman National Security Project and the Center for National Policy, told VICE News.
But outsiders bearing advice do have to nod to the understandable war-weariness of the American public, and their natural desire to want to see more nation-building at home.
"We're working to normalize post-traumatic stress as an understandable human consequence of war that can result in very serious damage to some people's lives, and they deserve honoring for that," she said.
For the vast majority of Tories, such threats, combined with an understandable disinclination to go to war, served to cow rebellion.
"Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it," he said.
Despite its murderous campaigns around the country, the movement is widely regarded as an understandable reaction to the American-led war in Afghanistan.
Two world wars have created an understandable horror of large-scale conflict, but an unintended consequence has been the widespread adoption of tactics which make no distinction between soldiers and civilians.
Yes, it was our finest hour but we had an understandable tendency to overstate its importance in the overall scheme of the second world war.
It is an understandable mood.
That is an understandable goal.
