�Kerry’s Lost Opportunity�

For those who still don’t get it (and for those that do) that Kerry has asked for the Swift Boat Veteran ads and other Vietnam-related attacks on him, I highly recommend this piece. Instead of helping lay Vietnam divisions aside as other political leaders have sought to do, Kerry has sought to exploit them even though his own Vietnam conduct was highly questionable to say the least, especially when he trashed American soldiers as war criminals when they were still on the field and when many were suffering as POWs.

As I mentioned yesterday, the divisions from Vietnam and from various other culture wars of the Sixties were (and clearly still are) deeply felt. Kerry has thrown a lighted match – heck – several lighted matches on that gasoline for political gain. Why am I neither surprised nor sympathetic that it is blowing up in his face?

(hat tip to titusonenine)