Is Wobbliness New?

There is a sentiment out there ( I hear it a lot, most recently in Hugh Hewitt) that at one time Americans understood and supported their wars. I cite the large number of Tories during the Revolution, the consideration of succession in New England during the War of 1812, the serious Copperhead movement in the Civil War, the draft riots during same, the American Anti-Imperialism League, the WWI draft resisance movement, and only then do we get to Vietnam. American wars have been beset from the begining by large segments of people who didn't support the wars of their own generation. WWII is an exception in part because both the left and the liberals accepted the fight against fascism, and the right is generally willing to fight other rightists. And yet even then, we can point to the exceptional delay in getting involved in the war because of isolationism. From 1939 to 1941, Americans did not undertstand war or the neccesity of defense against a hostile ideology. Going Wobbly is as old as the Republic.