He’s got politics on the mind but his ideas are naive and too narrowly focused, though his heart and honor are in the right place.
He speaks with a soldier who had an arm amputated and he wonders what that man’s future will be like, how he’ll get a measly pension, drink the money away, die a pauper. He is angry that the ‘richest nation on earth’ can’t or won’t take care of its soldiers.
History repeating.