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Previously, the term '''war wimp''' was sometimes used, coined during the [[Vietnam War]] by Congressman [[Andrew Jacobs, Jr.|Andrew Jacobs]], a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]] veteran of the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{cite news|title=What the Contras Need is Patrick Buchanan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44276676/war_wimp/ |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review |date=March 16, 1986 |page=10 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=February 14, 2020}} {{Open access}}</ref> Jacobs defined a ''war wimp'' as "someone who is all too willing to send others to war, but never got 'round to going himself". |
Previously, the term '''war wimp''' was sometimes used, coined during the [[Vietnam War]] by Congressman [[Andrew Jacobs, Jr.|Andrew Jacobs]], a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]] veteran of the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{cite news|title=What the Contras Need is Patrick Buchanan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44276676/war_wimp/ |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review |date=March 16, 1986 |page=10 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=February 14, 2020}} {{Open access}}</ref> Jacobs defined a ''war wimp'' as "someone who is all too willing to send others to war, but never got 'round to going himself". |
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[[Donald Trump]] has been used as a modern example of a chickenhawk.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fallows |first1=James |title=Chickenhawk in Chief |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/what-did-you-do-in-the-twitter-war-daddy/536184/ |accessdate=February 14, 2020 |work=The Atlantic |date=August 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Burt |first1=Charles |title=Donald Trump Is the Definition of a Chickenhawk |url=https://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article95909172.html |accessdate=February 14, 2020 |work=The San Luis Obispo Tribune |date=August 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lemon |first1=Jason |title='Draft Dodging' Trump and Adviser Bolton Are 'Chickenhawks' Pushing U.S. to War With Iran, Democratic 2020 Candidate Warns |url=https://www.newsweek.com/draft-dodging-trump-bolton-chickenhawks-iran-war-1441548 |accessdate=February 14, 2020 |work=Newsweek |issue=June 2, 2019}}</ref> |
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Chickenhawk (chicken hawk or chicken-hawk) is a political term used in the United States to describe a person who is a war hawk, yet actively avoids or avoided military service when of age.[1] Generally, the implication is that chickenhawks lack the moral character to participate in war themselves, preferring to ask others to support, fight, and perhaps die in an armed conflict.
Origin of the term
In political usage, chickenhawk is a compound of chicken (meaning 'coward') and hawk (meaning someone who advocates war, first used to describe "War Hawks" in the War of 1812).
On one episode of the American television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In that aired in 1970, Dan Rowan made the following joke:[2]
- "On the Vietnam issue, I have a friend who says he's a chickenhawk. He wants us to fight on to victory, but to do it without him."
The 1983 bestselling book Chickenhawk was a memoir by Robert Mason about his service in the Vietnam War, in which he was a helicopter pilot. Mason used the word as a compound oxymoron to describe both his fear of combat ("chicken") and his attraction to it ("hawk"), a slightly different use of the term which nonetheless might have inspired the current usage.[3][unreliable source?]
Previously, the term war wimp was sometimes used, coined during the Vietnam War by Congressman Andrew Jacobs, a Marine veteran of the Korean War.[4] Jacobs defined a war wimp as "someone who is all too willing to send others to war, but never got 'round to going himself".
See also
References
- ^ "chicken hawk". The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
- ^ "Chicken Hawk" entry from Word Spy
- ^ "What the Contras Need is Patrick Buchanan". The Spokesman-Review. March 16, 1986. p. 10. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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