Ron Rosenbaum thoughtfully re-opens a can of worms. And he asks the right question of the Kerry campaign:
If the Swift-boat vets who oppose Mr. Kerry felt betrayed by his anti-war stance, shouldn’t those who opposed the war feel betrayed by his convention’s glorification of it? But most are so blinded by Bush hatred that they don’t see how the retrospective celebration of killing Vietnamese may come to haunt us-and brand them as hypocrites.
I didn’t see it at the time – maybe because I was a child in England during the Vietnam war. But whoever decided to make Vietnam the centerpiece of Kerry’s convention appeal should no longer be working for the campaign.
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