I disagree with your basic assertion. You know it's not hyperbole when I say there are still millions of radical Islamists and others who want as many of us dead as possible. They are either waiting for us to self destruct or the right time to make 9-11 look like child's play. They see us stretched very thin and getting thinner. Think for a moment how this new strategy involving the 172nd Stryker is playing in the part of the world that hates everything about us. They see us in kind of a holding action with our fingers crossed.
They also see us as very divided, and we are - culturally and politically. Much of that division, I believe, could have been prevented in 01 by including the entire country in the fight. The country was never asked to sacrifice and by calling for and getting a Universal Service Bill there would have been the effect of uniting the country. It may not have been needed then or for a few years, or maybe never, but it would be there. It's too late now but maybe when we're attacked again it won't be.
There is really no difference between the generation that fought WWII and the generation now. I argue that the country is in just as much peril now as it was then. It just takes leadership to show the way. I detest FDR on many levels but I have to give him credit for putting the American population behind the war effort. And that effort included 10+ million draftees.
There is really no difference between the generation that fought WWII and the generation now.
You haven't met my liberal brother-in-law that lives in Manhatten and was there during 9-11. He has since protested against the war, and has not talked to his older brother much at all since he deployed to Iraq.
This anti-military know-it-all who worships every word of the NY Times, is nothing but a pussy. He couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, he's scared of his own shadow, and yet he understands all Islam is peaceful, they've been wronged, and continue to be, that is why they are unhappy with the arrogance of Americans. To make it worse, he thinks France is the most cultured society with the answers to all of the US problems... if we were sophisticated enough to listen to them.
This isn't the guy you want, he would run away to France, screaming like a scared little girl, before he'd answer the call to serve his country that he so clearly despises, at least without a Clinton at the helm.
Credit for putting all the American population behind the war effort in WWII lies with Soviet Russia being attacked by Hitler.
When the leaders of the cradle of communism are for a war, the Democrats fall in line. When Russia isn't on board, then neither are the Democrats.