Reply #2: What a fallacious argument... [View All]

[SteppingRazor]

Here's the opening graph:

"Who is qualified to speak on matters of national security? According to the American left, only pacifists, military members who have served in combat and direct relatives of those slain in combat or in acts of terrorism. The rest of us -- about 80 percent of voters -- must simply sit by silently. Our opinions do not matter. You want disenfranchisement? Talk to the political left, which seeks to exclude the vast majority of the American populace from the national debate about foreign policy."

Is that really what we're saying? A chickenhawk is someone who calls for war, avidly extols the glories of war, but has never been to war himself.
That's who we have a problem with, not anyone who is not a peace activist, military, or family of soldiers who have been killed. Sheesh. How obtuse.