StanH:

If conservatives who support the war in Iraq but don't enlist to fight in it (or have their children do so) are chickenhawks, are liberals who support the war in Afghanistan but don't enlist to fight in it (or have their children do so) chickenhawks as well?

Tricksy question, Gollum.

My take on chickenhawks, or definition, if you will, requires non-service and requires that the alleged chickenhawk also proclaim their great patriotism and question the patriotism of those who oppose the particular action. I didn't consider St. Bill a chickenhawk, just a draftdodger, but do consider most of our slacker pseudo-con friends here to be chinckenhawks.

Also, and maybe this is the sexist in me, I don't consider women to be chickenhawks. Fairly much limited to an able bodied slacker who questions my patriotism for opposing a stupid war. Knew a lot of them 35 to 40 years ago. Same bunch of BS from the same ones today.