The Draft created the hippies and it might bring them back. I was drafted. I became a soldier, not a hippie.
I submit that a prolonged, illprosecuted war, too costly of lives, for no gains, caused American people to become skeptical. I did and my mother did.
The public will support this war, so long as the leaders are honest, the prosecution is effective, the loss of life is relatively small, and the "gain" is significant.
Good for you. However when a nation institutes conscription, it opens itself up to revolutionary dangers. That is why the monarchs of the 18th Century eschewed conscription. When the French called out the levee en masse in 1793, it brought about both victories and profound social changes. Millions of armed citizen soldiers can be turned against the governments that conscripted them as the Tsar in 1917 and the Kaiser in 1918 found out. Just pointing out that conscription and social changes seem to be inextricably connected.