To sing the praises of the israeli army for protecting the jewish people is akin to praising of hard snow (e.g. to build an shelter) for saving one from the freezing cold
cf. Chazon Ish to mr. Ben Gurion.
That is only for the minority who have the correct intentions. For the rest, their misguided potential,
as RBerel Soloveitchik put it, ispigul`