I have to agree. If we don't mobilize and get on a war footing here, it will mean (at least to me) that the gummint does not intend to inform and educate the people in the timely manner it should.
It also tells me our gummint is willing to accept a devastating first strike if it thinks it needs more of a reason to mobilize the country. And that is scary.
If we take a first strike, who really knows what the extent of it will be? If a city, or maybe several are hit, it will be pretty difficult to mobilize. An uninformed and unprepared population will be a population in panic and chaos, not knowing where or where the next hit will be.
Now really is the time to act pre-emptively. We already know the intentions of our enemies. I say take out those who threaten us -- on the foreign fields as well as domestically. Even then, we may have to contend with the enemy already inserted here, but it won't go easy for them if we're mobilized.
Of course, this would require a very narrow definition of who the enemy really is.
I, for one, would prefer a Real Hot War, to the present Slow Slide into Dhimmitude.