You are confusing the anti-war support for Ron Paul now with the anti-war issue of the 60’s. The young supporters of Ron Paul are not worried about having to fight a war as the college students of the 60’s were. There is no draft now. They are attracted to Ron Paul with his message of freedom, smaller government, less taxes, getting out of SS (most of them do not think it will be there for them), etc.
Plus, the economic situation of most young people is very bad. Wages have not gone up enough to compensate for the increase in inflation. Many college students have to take out large amounts of loans to get through college and they know that jobs, which would allow them to pay off the loans fairly easily, are not out there now.
The anti-war message might have drawn them to Ron Paul, but the ardent support is based more on his conservative, small government principles.
I’m not at all sure why you thought I attribute the majority of Ron Paul’s support to his anti-war stance. While that is certainly some of the reason and the principal reason for the opposition to RP here on FR, his anti-war stance is only incidental to his overall policy direction.
RP and most of his hard core supportes do not see the GOP as an ally but as an impediment to their objectives. They would like nothing more to destroy the GOP and create a libertarian based party in it’s place. I would go so far as to say that RP and most of his hard core supporters would also like to see the destruction of the US government as it is presently structured. Given the chance, they would roll back the size of the US government to that of approximately 1860. If you doubt this, then name one federal agency created since 1860 that Ron Paul has not advocated abolishing.