Thought: Criticism of a "chicken hawk" -- a vociferous proponent of military action who went out of  his way to avoid military service in time of war -- is not based on the premise that no one who has not served can voice an opinion on whether the country should go to war.  People, like myself, who have not served should, however, be very conscious of the heavy consequences of  a decision to go to war.  Chicken hawks all too often gloss over these consequences, which they themselves strenuously avoided when they were confronted with them.  If we must ask others to suffer for us, perhaps even die, then we should at least do so with humility, after careful deliberation, concious of the magnitude of what we are asking.  These qualities are nowhere more evident than in the great speeches of Abraham Lincoln -- not a combatant, but not a chicken hawk.

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