I know little about gambling however I do know that in Vegas you can bet on the winner as well as the looser that betting is though financial and for financial gain. In the stock market it is viewed a little less positive (shorting stocks) but still is considered acceptable financially. In politics some things are and should be not acceptable. Today the democrats are wholeheartedly betting their political future on the wish that America will loose the war. I do not know how we got to this level of unacceptable behavior (mine and hundreds of millions of others point of view) but it is and it should be against all principles not comfortable to wish in your heart that your country, the country you love should loose a war against an enemy that almost everyday is wishing America hate and destruction. This country used to be made up only with ardent supporter where did so many detractors (almost entirely of the democratic, media and Hollywood types) come out of. My stomach gets upset every time I think of it.