Once upon a time, long lost to the Blogger archives, I posted a comment on the Brothers Judd concerning former President Reagan. Another commentor had said that it was incomprehensible that people didn't appreciate Reagan more for his efforts during the Cold War, that just must not undersand his contributions. I replied that on the contrary, his detractors were keenly aware of his contributions and that's why they hated him. I was reminded of this by in an editorial by Boris Johnson, a Tory MP, discussing Prime Minister Tony Blair [source]:

Of course, he will be weakened, at the end of it all. He will never be forgiven for shaming the doubters, for helping to liberate Iraq from tyranny. His antiwar backbenches will pursue him with special fury if and when he is proved right. Across Britain, in the commentariat and in the saloon bars, there are too many people who have invested too much, emotionally and intellectually, in the antiwar cause. They will, though they may not admit it, be secretly hoping for catastrophe. [emphasis added]

Just like Reagan there are too many people with too much invested in appeasement and “co-existence” to ever forgive Blair for showing what small people they really are.