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07/30/2004 Archived Entry: "Apocalypse Kerry"

Posted by steve @ 05:42 PM EST [Link]

LESS THAN NOTHING: Lawrence Kaplan absolutely shreds John Kerry over connecting his service in Vietnam to his foreign policy credentials.

There were, in fact, three Vietnams haunting the convention hall last night. One was on the stage, which, with its "band of brothers" and "greatest generation" tributes, somehow attached World War II nostalgia to our national tragedy in Vietnam. The second was in the audience, where nine out of ten delegates view the war in Iraq through the prism of their views of that earlier conflict--that is, they would just as soon bolt--and where Kerry's Vietnam service seems to be regarded as some sort of anthropological (and heaven-sent) oddity. The final Vietnam was in John Kerry's words, which blended the stage and audience versions into some approximation of the candidate's own views about the war. None of it furthered the cause of rational discourse.

Read on.