Originally posted by MrFatBooty
With the exception of Vietnam there was huge public mobilization for every major conflict this country has been involved in during the 20th century. We didn't initially stay out of those wars because the government was looking to find some reason to unify behind in order to get the people to shut up long enough to go to war; we stayed out of those wars because our government wanted to avoid involvement in a conflict that was not necessarily our business (at least at the outset).
You don't know your history well at all. The public wanted to stay out of WWII because we were still reeling from the horrors of WWI. Not to mention the popular conspiracy of the day that arms makers had gotten us into WWI. It was Roosevelt who was desperately trying to find a reason to get the country into the war, like the merchant and cruise ship attacks had done in WWI. Roosevelt knew that WWII would get us out of the depression better than his lackluster socialist programs did, and he was right for once. Go read some history books, I've taken a few classes on WWII.
Public support was
for the Vietnam war in the beginning. It was by a tremendous amount because of the paranoia about communism. But when the war was drawn out and especially after the Tet Offensive, it became clear that it was an unwinnable war that would only increase in intensity.
I didn't bother reading the rest of your post because of all those inaccuracies.