[Vaquero]

I understand he served in Vietnam...

did he toss any medals away in his virgin speech?

perhaps ones he may have received from Red China or the former Soviet Union? or ones presented to him in Ho Chi Minh City???

[Ooh-Ah]

Also from article:

"Our challenge" is, in fact, to defeat the forces of Islamic radicalism that threaten us at home sometimes, and that threaten our friends in the Middle East, Southwest and East Asia all the time. Secular people, Christian people, Jews, women and progressive people in those regions -- including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, North Africa, Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq and Turkey, and more -- feel the pressure of the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, al Qaeda and Taliban forces snuffing out the tentative whiffs of freedom and equality presaged by President Bush's "democracy agenda" and the now-cold "Arab Spring." The less-than-optimal "impulses of globalization" are far more benign than the less-than-optimal impulses of a political-religious philosophy that holds the 7th Century to be the apex of human endeavor.

[Don Corleone]

But..but...but...Kerry served in Vietnam!

[novascotianative]

Lurch is making me lurch. POS!!!

[BenLurkin]

“Gin-giss Khan”

[Eric in the Ozarks]

JF’nK: “In this global world...”

[skeeter]

I must be dyslexic. At a glance I thought the article was titled Maiden Kerry's Secretary Speech.