re: Let's remember
The righteous self-vindication on this board when the war in Iraq went badly was obvious, same as the bitter denial going on right now when Iraq is improving.
For sure, they weren't wishing for dead troops directly--the level of abstraction required to connect casualties and military defeat was beyond most of them--but the end result was the same.
Over the next few years we'll be seeing the same crap from the same people about Afghanistan--up until recently the "good" war--although it will be suppressed to some extent because the right gang is running the country now.