Jerome (11-25-2020)
Diesel (11-25-2020)
First, Kerry is a traitor. He's the real deal. His time with the VVAW, the Winter Soldier program, meeting (illegally) with the N. Vietnamese government, etc., all were acts against the US. Read his book The New Soldier some time. It's a shock just how anti-American and traitorous he was.
Then there's his self-serving time in the US Navy. He's the sort of officer you never, ever want to be under command of. That's based on his assignments and actions and my own experience over 27 years in the Navy. I've seen his type more than once. They are terrible to work for because it's all about getting them promoted.
On top of that, Kerry is a technological and scientific illiterate. He has no clue about the science and technology he'd be dealing with here. That means he could, and will, be buffaloed by scientists, engineers, and businessmen who have an agenda or align with his own political views. He has no real means of discerning the correct actions from wrong ones to take. An example of that was as a Senator he was on the Committee for Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Lobbists and others that worked with that committee said almost universally that Kerry rarely attended hearings, and was not considered a significant player on it by them. He'd typically just vote with his party or the majority.
You do know he voted against the Kyoto Climate Treaty don't you? Another indication that Kerry goes whichever way the most favorable wind to his political career is blowing.
That's some of why he's such a bad choice.
Agreed Kerry's 1970 Paris meeting was illegal, but I'm not sure it was treasonous since he (illegally) met with both sides in Paris, not Hanoi like Hanoi Jane.
Did you support the Vietnam War as it was fought? What do you think LBJ should have done from 1964 until the end of his term?
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
I was a bit too young for that. But with Kerry, it wasn't just that meeting. It was his lying testimony to Congress, his involvement with Winter Soldier and the VVAW in general that add to it giving a picture of a guy that was traitorous. Hanoi's war museum hails Kerry as a hero...
And, Kerry was right alongside Fonda in all this.
cancel2 2022 (11-25-2020), Sailor (11-25-2020)
I was High Schooler in those days and anxious to graduate and do my duty. Dad did two Vietnam tours in the Army. The second tour saw him come home a different man in 1970. It was a bad war, horribly mismanaged by LBJ, supported by Hawks and highly divisive nationally. I saw friends lose their father in Vietnam then given 30 days notice to move the family off base. The only good thing about Korea and Vietnam was that it was preferable to a nuclear exchange with the USSR and the PRC. Let's not forget that both Trump and Rush Limbaugh were draft-dodging cowards. At least Kerry did his tour.
I don't agree with how Kerry handled it but I respect his will to stand up and fight it. Same for any stateside activists and, especially, vets like Ron Kovic. Jane Fonda made a complete fool of herself, and, IMO, committed treason, by going to Hanoi. She epitomized the LW liberal who doesn't know shit about the military and/or national security.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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