[Cincinatus' Wife]

Like father, like son: Kerry's World: Father Knows Best***"Americans," he writes, "are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white." They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls "ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." As a result, America has committed the "fatal error" of "propagating democracy" and fallen prey to "the siren's song of promoting human rights," falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, Kerry argues. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes. He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. The book culminates in a plea for a hardheaded, realist foreign policy that removes any pretense of U.S. moral superiority.***

[patj]

Good to see you back again, CW, and posting. We are going to need you in the next few months. You find such interesting articles.

[Robert Drobot]

Thanks for the summary. Like most of the democrat party, he was IMHO a enemy sympathizer, even before he was deployed to Vietnam.

It would be no small feather in their cap, if the RNC could pull one out-of-the-hat on anti-war statements Hanoi Kerry may well have made prior to his Vietnam 'service'. It would be a fitting final chapter to close a self-destruct narsarsistic stained history.

It would also be a fitting 'chickens coming home to ruse' synario for the rats to loose a presidential election, because they dared ask America to vote for someone who - according to military leaders of the North Vietnam Army - was a member of the 'useful idiot' war protestors, who brought about the removal of our military support for, and the eventual defeat of, South Vietnam by the communists.

The military leadership of North Vietnam readily admit that we broke the back of their military capability with our defeat of their 'Tet offensive'.

It was IMHO a deceitful socialist Walter Cronkite along with the pro-communist print media in America who wrongly declared America had failed to destroy the enemy.

Cronkite's un-American denunciation of the war fooled those at home. I will always believe that more than any other American, Walter Cronkite stripped our military from claiming a victory that was theirs for the taking.

Note to the DNC:

It's payback time for you commie, atheist, un-American, race-baiting, socialist demagogues!!! This is one crash 'n burn I didn't think would come in my lifetime.

Feel the heat. Feel the frustration. Feel the erosion of support. Feel the shame you brought on our returning Vietnam warriors. No arms. No legs. No thanks.

You supported our enemy then......and you want to surrender to our enemy now.

Nothing will be finer than to watch you burn. You and I deserve this moment....for different reasons.