Jay Nordlinger nails it in one of his Impromptus columns.
"Well, the war has been over for ages and ages--it seems so yesterday--and the press has been consumed with griping and sniping and pouting. But I'm still grateful. Still grateful and amazed at what U.S. forces accomplished. The country, with its allies, committed a great act. A noble and humane and necessary act: Don't let 'them' make you forget that."