Senator Kerry has "hands on" experience and served in combat.. some of you may not know that Kerry served in Viet Nam.
As a service member he lived the life of a little person during those months.. he remembers what it's like to be one of us.
He also has spoken about the good and the bad America. I found sources for the latter but I am still looking for a source for the former.
Here's what Senator Kerry (as a young Naval officer) reported to the American people upon return from his service in Viet Nam.
It is not pretty but it proves that he will get the essential respect and approval that a Sec. of State needs from countries who all believe that America sucks.
There were American "war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
"It is impossible to describe to you exactly . . . the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made [our servicemen] do.
"[Servicemen said] they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and [tied] dogs [to the tops of vehicles] for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
And that includes serving in Cambodia during Christmas, 1968, after President Nixon ordered him to go there to take part in his "secret war."
Iirc traitor Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia.
So he has multinational experience.