Letters to the Editor
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Cheap shots at those who deserve it are fine, but don't obsess about the physical characteristics thing
I've known plenty of people in various anti-war movements who were pale, or overweight, or who couldn't run miles or look tough on a movie about war. Yet the amount of courage they possessed inside made them seem larger, and braver, and stronger than might have seemed from their outward appearance.
Similarly, knowing how evil these right wing twits are colors how they look to me. Our view of how people look is often passed through a filter we have of who they are inside. Look at how deranged the right wing got over John Kerry's 'long' face.
While I encourage every opportunity to brutally mock these cowardly warhawks at every turn -- and sure, this includes putting up photos of the cowardly, non-serving war-mongers who relish the battlefield horrors to be inflicted on others -- I would suggest that we not get too wrapped up in such an analysis until you've got some weird, nearly totalitarian theory of how their physical appearance determines their philosophy.
Unless you're doing some individual's actual biography and it turns out that their personal physical weakness and fearfulness really does seem to manifest as a maniacal public commitment to warfaring by others.