Kerry's Lost Opportunity

He could have healed the wounds of Vietnam. Instead, he tried to exploit them.

Blogger Herman Jacobs takes a look at the desire of John "war criminal" Kerry to have it both ways and how that desire has re-kindled the debate over the Vietnam war. Kerry is one of those baby boomers who never apologized for his anti-war activities; never recognized the damage he did to America; never understood how those who were captured were affected by his treason; never acknowledged that the pullout of America from the war resulted in the deaths and enslavement of millions under the communist boot. And there are plenty of people in the country who have not forgotten this fact and will not let Mr. Kerry get into the White House as long as this is the case. Mr. Kerry wants us to believe that the war protesters were doing the right thing when they said that the war in Vietnam was "criminal" but at the same time Mr. Kerry also wants to bask in the glow of military patriotism of a war that he himself denounced. Many veterans of that war are saying, "Over my dead body." And the rest of us can see the unbridled hypocrisy, even if Mr. Kerry cannot.