Don't forget Dee Dee Myers the press secretary for President Clinton. Dee Dee Myers lamented the fact that 9/11 did not happen when Bill Clinton was president. She feeeeeeels that it is a shame Clinton missed being a heroic wartime president.
So yes, as soon as they know they can use the military they suspend a lifetime of hating the American military. "Imperialists! Criminals! Murderers!"
Presidents Clinton and Obama and their people are 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble and the ideological issue of same. "Bring it all down, man."
Now they see themselves as military heroes rivaling Audie Murphy and George Washington.
Well said.