Word: chickenhawk
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...subscribed to time some years ago because I thought it was a balanced newsmagazine. Now you regularly feature the neocon chickenhawk William Kristol in addition to the ultraconservative Charles Krauthammer, both mouthpieces for the Republican National Committee. So much for balanced coverage...
...underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then the troops bear no responsibility for the war in Iraq; it’s all the fault of the chickenhawk in the White House. After my column on this issue, one of Harvard’s few military officers informed me of a Heritage Foundation study which claims that the American military is actually about as representative of the American public as anyone could hope. The study argues that the military...
...CHICKENHAWK by Robert Mason...
This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...
Agonizingly suspended between his fear of death and his passion for duty, the "chickenhawk" took the conflicts home. When a clerk in Hawaii called him a murderer, he felt that she was talking about someone else. Daily quarts of whisky could not erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...