From the article:

"What's the plan now to actually win this war?" he [Moulton] asked. "Because it feels like we're losing."

Cooper held the line. "Congressman, we achieved all our military objectives."

That's when Moulton asked his question " and Cooper snapped.

Congressman meets heel-clicker:

"Admiral, you're familiar with General Westmoreland?" he [Mouton] asked, invoking the Vietnam War commander synonymous with false optimism and catastrophic body counts.

"I'm very familiar, Congressman," Cooper replied. "He's well known for talking about body counts."

From there, Moulton walked Cooper through a litany of failures. Why was the strait closed under his watch when it had been open under every previous president? Why was Trump begging China for help to reopen it?

Cooper retreated to procedure: "My responsibility as a combatant commander is to lay out all the options and present those to the Secretary and the President. They make policy-level decisions."

Cooper is a high-level owner of this war. Given how easily the Israelis played him, Cooper gets understandably huffy when probed about this effup - of which he is a planner, aider and abetter. Unless, like Yamamoto a few years back, he might care to register his objections ... now.