It's obvious that half the country (GOP) believes we are in a war while the other half (Dems)believes it's all a bunch of BS. Well, we can lament this fact and make fun of the Dem leaders but, this is an absolute political fact.
My feeling is that most folks believe the Dems (sorry, it hurts me too). In the next couple of years it is likely the US will be forced to pull back their military and again (as we did pre 9/11) start relying on our law enforcement and playing nice-nice with Muslim dictators who hate us.
This is obviously a recipe for disaster. However, politics is politics and the majority of people in this country want to play golf, build their 401k's, and watch fotball. They just don't have the stomache to follow Bush anymore.
I agree that the will to fight is lacking.
I'll also point to the letter from Hollywood (left and right) that calls a spade a spade and labels Hamas and Hezbollah by names as terrorist organizations.
The mass media does not agree with this stance.
It is an improvement. It's a matter of getting the word out in SPITE of the conventional news sources which are BETRAYING this nation.
The exposure of the mass media's support and partnership with pro-terrorist factions (through the use of fake, altered, and staged images) is one way to get people to "tune in, turn on, and drop out". It doesn't take drugs to opt out of the "group think". The anti-establishment left of the 1960s is the establishment of today.
Timothy Leary might be boggled to see the internet reaching this capacity of "new thinking" and communication (he was still doping in his final years but he also had taken to the internet).
Look that up in your Funk & Wagnel's. < /s >