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Guy, responding to a poll is far different than active dissent.
Your second point: "2) Scale. Iraq requires WAY less troops than Vietnam, and as long as there isn't a draft, it is hard for many Americans who more or less remain unaffected by the war to take issue with it. Sending a son to war and putting a yellow magnet on your Chevy Suburban are totally different things."
... actually supports one of the points of the article.
In terms of the domestic climate, one key difference is the absence of a draft: we fight in Iraq with a volunteer Army, working-class in origin—men and women who may have signed up originally for good pay and benefits or the possibility of a college education they couldn’t otherwise afford. The professional class is hardly represented, the political class not at all. Unlike the 1960s, the children of the establishment don’t have to calculate how they will avoid service or maneuver to find safe spots in the National Guard. This changes the political atmosphere on campus considerably, where there is now as much a likelihood of unrest about something to do with gays and lesbians or the wages of janitors as an aggressive war.
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