EXACTLY. Kerry even recently matches his positions on Vietnam and the Cold War to the current War On Terror. He says we are making the same "mistakes." He is wrong, most certainly about the Colde War. And if you read his left wing reasoning, he considers the Vietnam War (and American 'war crimes') to have been a natural result of the Cold War mentality.
Kerry has the audacity to project his left wing view of the former Soviet Union onto the war on terror, which would cause a disaster for America. Hopefuly, the republicans will be articulate enough to explain this.
I'm confused. Are you saying that it is a "leftist" position that the Viet Nam war came out of the cold war mentality? I assume that you use the term "leftist" as a way of discrediting that position.
Have I misread your position?
If it was not an example of cold war thinking, just what was the reasoning behind going to war there?
(BTW, I'm not trying to be a smarta$$ in asking the questions, it just seems that the battles in SE Asia were the prototype for cold war hostilities).