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r3x29yz4a said:
doesn't the term chickenhawk stem from people who avoided active combat in their youth, but then pushed for war in their later years?



Good point. Obviously the left doesn't have a problem with a Commander in Chief who does not have a military background, e.g. they were fully confident in that "damn draft dodger Clinton" (as my grandfather used to say) and his ability to responsibly use the military.

Chickenhawks are clearly not non-military public officials, but politicians who
are "hawks" because they regularly employ strong rhetoric about the use of military force but are "chickens" because as members of the "Baby-Boom" generation they could have fought in Korea/Vietnam, but deferred or avoided service in combat even thought they were on the political side that ardently advocated those wars as necessary despite criticism (again hawks).

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