I think he still sees himself as the Good Soldier, fighting patriotically for his Homeland. Hence still wearing the marines t-shirt (how are you supposed to take that if you're one of the 100s of thousands across the world who have been brutalised by that force over the years?), hence his venom for Syrian soldiers who failed to prevent the invasion of HTS (direct quote: 'I spit on you', seen in various vids at the time), hence these comments made around the first assassination attempt on Trump:

'On March 21, 1981, I was in the Student Union of Franklin and Marshall College checking my mail when the news broke about the attempted assassination of President Reagan. “I hope he dies,” one of my fellow students announced, after watching the shooting on a television located in the common area.

I immediately put him up against the wall and told him I took violent exception to his support for the attempted assassination of my commander in chief (I was fresh out of the Army at that time).

My antics earned me a trip to the Dean of Student Affairs, who informed me (I was a newly arrived Freshman) that I would probably be expelled from college.

“We don’t tolerate acts of violence among students,” the Dean said.

“But you do tolerate the promotion of the political assassination of the President of the United States,” I retorted. “I’m curious what the Secret Service would think about that.”

The Dean thought on my words, and the incident was resolved by having me apologize to the student in question for roughing him up, and the student apologizing for his “insensitive” comments about President Reagan. - https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-dead-zone-revisited

Christ knows why he still maintains this kind of loyalty after the way the entire media & political establishment treated him after his dissent over the '03 Iraq invasion/occupation. Pity because it makes him untrustworthy and potentially dangerous to a genuine anti-imperialist, anti-state movement, when he should be the first to support such efforts, given what he's seen & been through.

cheers,
I