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To: fireman15

I can’t make sense of your weirdness and contradictory ramblings.

Here is your current chickenhawk definition “Oxford Dictionary, “a person who speaks out in support of war yet has avoided active military service.”

That is fine with me.


102 posted on 10/18/2023 3:48:01 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Actually, I posted that too early, “active” would ignore Reserves and the National Guard like George W and would only mean those who served on active duty so I will stick with the American meaning.


103 posted on 10/18/2023 3:53:46 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
I did run across an essay which gave a definition that fits better with the commonly accepted meaning.

“A “chickenhawk,” then, is someone who vigorously endorses a war and its sacrifices while diligently avoiding those sacrifices himself.”

https://www.e-ir.info/2014/10/07/the-chickenhawk-argument/

Lindsay Graham was technically a member of the military serving as a lawyer in the Air Force, but he never made any of the sacrifices that people normally associate with war.

106 posted on 10/18/2023 8:41:31 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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