I think that was to be expected. Using what the enemy has left implies acceptance of their success, of the value of what the enemy has accomplished.
Right. Like the Muslim Brotherhood engineering ways to dismantle the Pyramids and the Sphinx, ala the Taliban firing howitzers at the ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan to erradicate all vestiges of civilization and the past, ala China’s “cultural revolution”.
A thin veneer between civilzaiton and chaos.