I think dead's got it right here-- before Pearl Harbor, both of my parents ( not liberal, but beside the point ) thought we should let those fool Europeans kill each other off and stay out of it.
After Pearl? Well, they both signed up for service....
The media is this country has degenerated into a bunch of whiny elitists who mostly talk to each other, and whose main purpose in life seems to be yakking at each other. They hate to be bored, and this war is just not sufficiently entertaining to them.