The unfortunate schism between the Military and Non-military

Why do the intellectual elitists and the liberal fanatics in this country always seem to have a tendency to taboo the military? (notice I separate the two) Don't they see how much more effective their military would be if they just partook in its infrastrucure. Don't they notice the HUGE divide in perspective between the people in the military and the people in our society who are not necessarily anti-military, but are using their intelligence for other endeavors...and conveniently have no problem criticizing the military, but again at the same time do nothing to improve it. This divide has become smaller since 9/11 and eventually will become even smaller when we leave Iraq and the terrorists attack US soil. I guess we need to wait until they attack us again so their quality of life will become more directly interrupted.