If it was a "real war" as you put it then there'd be plenty of popular support in the USA as it would be a threat to average American life.

>>28366474
if you could get the smelly hippies to shut up then we could survive and even win another vietnam style war

Vietnam was not a real war. WWII was our last real war. However, a Syrian War would have much more popular support than the Vietnam war did.

Vietnam for us was trashcanistan and iraq. same bitching, but worse, because of the internet.

>>28366474
The Problem with vietnam or Afganistan was the use of drafted conscripts in a war that couldn't be justified as a war of defense. No-one (except hardcore pacifists) are against using conscripts in a defensive setting on ones own hometurf but offensive is a whole other jar of pickles.

>>28366521
um..... America doesnt use conscripts anymore and we havent since Vietnam....

>>28366646
At what death toll should conscription start? 20.000? 50.000?

>>28366474
when was the last time you read a newspaper?

>>28366748
Who the fuck reads newspapers anymore?

Not since the civil war had Americans had to deal with war damage to their own soil.

I don't know, I think it might have given us a somewhat detached view of war.

Americans go to war not fearing that their sisters home is going to blow up or something.

Now some of us are freaking out over random Muslims because of a few bombings, the war on terror has been very little damage to us. I don't think we would handle news like 'firebombing of little rock Arkansas, thousands dead' very well, it would physiologically damage us, maybe send us into some sort of spiral.

Not to mention our fragile interconnected global economy won't handle a serious war very well.

>>28366948
Good points on national psychology, bad on economy. USA is economically 90% self sufficient.