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I do not believe that a Taiwan Straits war would bring about the changes you envision. Any real inconvenience here in the States will cause an absolute demand by the Democrats, Big Media, school teachers, and other academics for immediate withdrawal. If the Chinese nuke a few cities the demands for withdrawal will become overwhelming.

A WWII response is not going to happen again. Besides, the WWII response was nothing at all like the current myth portrays it. This is an interesting subject and taboo with the WWII generation. Did you know that the USA very nearly ran out of men willing to fight? This was a major military issue in 1944 - 45. You couldn't get anyone worth a darn into the Army combat units.

My own belief is that the Marines did OK with the run of draftees during this period and the Army did not for political reasons. Effective training for such human material is rather strict and has a pretty fair death rate. The Marines used the brig, a remarkable experience in those days. You would not believe the details.

A WWII response is not going to happen again.

Our response to 9/11 proved we still have the fight in us.

A major thing happening now is that computers and robotics are entering the battlefield in a big way. Using technology we were able to conquer Iraq with only 150,000 troops. Gulf War I needed 500,000.

If we took on China, we wouldn't be sending a WWII sized army over. We would fight increasingly with robots, amplifying our effective troop strength by 10. Finding suicidal robots willing to fight to their death for America will not be a problem. Hopefully we'll have both Germany and Japan's engineering talent to augment ours this time.

"...This was a major military issue in 1944 - 45. You couldn't get anyone worth a darn into the Army combat units...."

Are you telling us that the guys who stormed Omaha Beach, held out at Bastogne and took Okinawa were not "worth a darn?"