Mark Steyn - Running on cliches

Washington Times ^ | 2/16/04 | Mark Steyn

[kattracks]

If you own a computer or listen to talk-radio or read the British or Australian papers, you'll know John Kerry is currently beset by rumors of interns. By the time you read this, it may be that America's genteel broadsheets and network news shows will have overcome their squeamishness and tiptoed gingerly down the path blazed by Drudge and Fleet Street. Or maybe they'll decide to investigate it a bit longer, just to get chapter and verse nailed down, which means you may not get to read about it till, oh, midway through President Kerry's second term.

[hotpotato]

I guess it doesn't really matter to me whether he was in battle or not. A lot of our guys are being blown up in Iraq and Afghanistan while attempting to dismantle mines or while destroy ammo (we lost eight in one incident the other day). I'm not about to say that disqualifies them as heroes. I personally think Coulter took this one way too far.

[Fledermaus]

I agree. Any death of a soldier, even at home in a training accident or vehicle crash or any military related act, is a hero and died in the line of duty.