In a recent interview with the renowned journalist [and vain self-searcher on the internet] David Cay Johnston on Democracy Now,
“David Cay Johnson: 21 Questions for Trump on Kickbacks, Busting
Unions, the Mob & Corporate Welfare” (August 19, 2015), the chicken
hawk analogy came up once again. Johnston described alleged questionable
business dealings by presidential candidate Donald Trump and conflated
Trump’s behavior with his avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam War.
“And I think that’s consistent with Donald having so assiduously
avoided the draft.” He continues, “Donald is not a guy to put himself in
any position that he thinks might represent any kind of physical danger
to him whatsoever.” Wow!
Trump’s policy pronouncements sound like an interchange between
characters in a Marx Brothers’ movie, but the representation of draft
resistance in this manner was nothing less than insulting.
-- Howard Lisnoff, "War Resistance and the Cowardice Slur" (CounterPunch).