Soldiers fairness

I was reading up on George Washington for a book I'm going to write about, and it came to me how unfair our soldiers have been treated just because the outcome doesn't go our way. Ever since the beginning of our national defense, we find ways to make our soldiers pay for the mistakes we conjure. Examples: During the American Revolution, our congress developed a debt that put fear to our founding fathers, that we could not start a new nation with this debt hanging over our heads. Now, I don't get the logic of the congress at that times, but they concocted a scheme to blame George Washington by ruining his reputation. Why? Only God knows. This man, our first President, before excepting a majority elected position as Commander-in-Chief, told congress that he excuses any payment on his behalf, and that they should use his wages as a way to help the independent cause. Another example, of many, is the Vietnam war. We as a nation were so obsessed over communistic rule, that the U.S. needed to put their noses into others affair. I don't know why we did, except that we had a outstanding debt to the French, or any God forsaken reason. The outcome was something that I see happening now with the Iraqi affair. The treatment we showed our troops then is almost the way we show our troops now. Maybe not with disgust, because we actually lost a war, or did we?, but with the way we are leaving unfinished plans and causing another debt. I feel that I need to focus on the issue at hand. Let's praise our brother at arms with the respect that they deserve. And end this madness that our society has concocted, by putting the blame on US!