What Did You Do in the War, Dad?
'Chicken hawk' slur has no place in today's politics.
Max Boot
February 19, 2004
There are good arguments to be made against the war in Iraq. Calling its supporters "chicken hawks" isn't one of them. Yet to judge from an appearance I recently made on a C-SPAN call-in show, it's a favorite of the antiwar crowd. As someone who thinks that ending the brutal rule of Saddam Hussein was a good idea, but who doesn't have a Medal of Honor on my mantelpiece, or even a dusty uniform hanging in the closet, I am, of course, fair game.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who had student deferments during the Vietnam War, are much higher-profile targets of these venomous attacks. Even President Bush — who served, but not in combat — is on the receiving end of such criticisms from Democrats who accuse him of being AWOL during his term in the National Guard.
It's called "projection". It doesn't bother me much now that I understand it.
Posted by Phelps at February 19, 2004 11:45 AMOkay. So we call the war supporters "projectors" from now on.
It cracks me up how folks get all tangled up over the particular words in use.
Posted by P6 at February 19, 2004 12:55 PM