Hawk & Dove

These terms are used in politics to describe those who want tough foreign policy ('hawks') and those who, uh, don't ('doves'). Since I am clearly a hawk, I don't actually understand how doves think, but that's OK, because hawks are considered bloodthirsty bandits by the doves and doves are considered cowardly and stupid by hawks.

Whenever you have a stark debate like this, the titles and terms are created by the partisans and used by everyone and make both sides sound pretty good. An example is in the abortion debate where the sides are called (by themselves first and then everyone got used to it): pro-life & pro-choice.

What I propose is that we force both sides to drop the euphemisms and be called by the terms the other side uses (or at least from an objective perspective). So pro-choice would be renamed "the Baby Butchers" and pro-life would be "pro-rape & incest" (or something like that).


A buzzard is actually part of the hawk family (when most people think 'buzzard' they actually visualize a vulture... they're different animals).When it comes to hawk & dove, I propose that we use better birds - buzzard & chicken.

Buzzards feed on corpses & carnage - exactly what doves think about hawks.

And hawks think doves are chicken.