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How spread out are the US Armed Forces today? How many countries? How many different missions?
Our armed forces still have as their main mission to fight enemies who would want to fight us. But, they are also involved in drug interdiction, disaster assistance, humanitarian aid, and other missions.
It seems like every time there's a mission to be accomplished, we just hand it off to our armed forces.
Could that be because we have at least two generations of leaders who were never drafted, who never got that official letter from the President of the United States saying "Greeting! You are hereby notified that you have been inducted ..."?
It's a lot easier for people to root and cheer sacrifice when someone else is sacrificing for them.
Such as all those College Republicans who were cheering on our troops in the first weeks of the Iraq War and calling out war protesters, but who could somehow never find the time to use their browser to find the nearest recruitment center?