The expression my country right or wrong—perhaps a misquotation of the American naval officer Stephen Decatur, but also attributed to Carl Schurz—is the extreme form of this belief.
He also says it no longer makes sense for thousands of U.S. troops to be concentrated in that one country, but the top U.S. general says the withdraw brings the potential for bad possible outcomes in Afghanistan.
A miscommunication adding to the intelligence failure of this operation that led to the deaths of 10 people from a single family that the top U.S. general had called a righteous strike.