Letters to the Editor
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chickenhawk
Come on guys.
You try to pass yourselves off as Smart Guys, and about half the commenters here rely upon the Chickenhawk trope. Is General Patreus a chickenhawk? Oh, I forgot. He's merely dishonest. (But at least he's not a pussy, right, or a "limp dick", right? Very nice. Nothing junior high about that argument...)
You realize that the Chickenhawk argument doesn't work against somebody like John McCain, right? In other words, with McCain, one would have to actually address the merits of his argument about Iraq, given that he spent 6 years being tortured in Viet Nam? Or is McCain dishonest too?
Really, it must be nice to have alternative arguments in your holster for every occasion: those who served and have contrary views are dishonest; those who didn't serve and have contrary views are chickenhawks.
Clearly, it would be beyond the pale to assume, on the merits, that reasonable minds can differ about a complex topic. And what fun is it to sit at your keyboard, behind the courage of your on screen persona, and concede that?