Originally Posted by Relentless

Institute a draft and we will be out of there within a week.

The government is abusing a tiny part of the population and the rest of the population is too scared of losing their jobs or their homes to care much about the fraction doing all the heavy lifting in these overseas wars of choice. Students these days are protesting the fact that their tuition is rising at an unprecedented pace while their employment opportunities continue to shrink. Since they aren't being drafted, that matters much more to them than any war a world away ever would.