You forget that the voluteer rate was at a all time high during WWII.
Right you are. A draft would be a nationwide referrendum on public support.
If the media and dems had not programmed the public...if our national realization had been allowed to remain the same as it was September 12, 2001, attitudes might be more like they were in 1942. The public would know how real this modern threat is and would know it will take more than a few days and a sound bite to eliminate the danger.
Imagine if every day, before All My Children and Dan Rather and Everybody Loves Raymond, all channels showed a 10 second clip of American bodies falling from the sky and a trailer at the bottom, reading, "REMEMBER". Imagine if every newspaper had a small picture of the WTC burning at the upper left-hand corner. Imagine if our country and our president wasn't being despised and sabotaged from within at every opportunity. Kids might be pulling up their pants and standing in line out in front of the recruiting offices.