Google has a new search engine to search the blogsphere. While trying it out it I came accross a blog for something called Beltway Young Republicans. In this blog is a defense of Chickenhawks. You can detect the injured tone as the writer agrues for "principle of division of labor". The army is contracted to fight while the rulers refuse to fight, work, pay taxes, do anything constructive. The Young Republican begins to sputter when he asks.
A chickenhawk is a super patriot who wants somebody else to die for his country. An ancient newspaper, The New Hampshire Gazette, has created a database of these yellow bastards. It also a name for those prey on teenagers.
In my opinion, what is really behind the "chicken hawk" charge is resentment. It's a way of saying, "how dare you ask others to sacrifice what you aren't willing to sacrifice." This is ridiculous and foolish.What is annoying and pernicious about the chickenhawks is the way they are so pro war, pro military and militaristic as long as they don't have to do anything. In a Nation article, Generation Chickenhawk, one coward says.
"I know that I'm going to be better staying here and working to convince people why we're there [in Iraq]," Hauser explained, pausing in thought. "I'm a fighter, but with words."It is as if he talking how privileges for party cadres are justified because cadres can rouse "the people" to fight for the defense of the "homeland".
A chickenhawk is a super patriot who wants somebody else to die for his country. An ancient newspaper, The New Hampshire Gazette, has created a database of these yellow bastards. It also a name for those prey on teenagers.
1 comment:
Could it be that the shrillness of the chickenhawks comes from the fact that they know if more people were resolved to see the war through that there would be less killing and less dying?
If a combatant - say a terrorist or insurgent - sees in his target a spirit of division, he is emboldened to fight on. If, however, he sees a spirit of silent resolve he may soon give up.
In other words, the spirit of warmaking lives as much in the act of thinking of warmaking as in fighting it. So if the "home front" were more invested in this resolve then the chickenhawks would have little rationale to resort to shrillness.
I mean... by your definition any great leader who did not fight could be called a chickenhaw. Eisenhower would be a chickenhaw; so too Roosevelt. Churchill even (despite his combat experience).
This chickenhawk thing smells of failiuremongering...
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