Brass-hats vs. chicken-hawks

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Vic Hanson
writes in the National Review:

Generals and the military brass call civilians who seek the liberation of Iraq "chicken hawks" and worse. Yet such traditional Vietnam-era invective I think rings hollow after September 11, and sounds more like McClellan's shrillness against his civilian overseers who precipitously wanted an odious slavery ended than resonant of Patton's audacity in charging after murderous Nazis.

Who would have thought that there would be an anti-war split within the GOP? And that the nominal anti-war side would be the uniformed military?

We've fallen down the rabbit-hole for sure.