This makes me angry all over again (and a bit more enraged) each time I read it or hear it. Take the preceding quote. This piece of %&$#, John Forbes Kerry, is (was) actually calling it "arrogant" -- ARROGANT! -- to supply the South Vietnamese with the weapons, supplies and training necessary to defend themselves from an implacable, warmongering foe bent on enveloping them (and Laos and Cambodia and Thailand, and...) in murderous, totalitarian hegemony.
UN-%&*(ING-BELIEVABLE.
And he still insists that the stand he took then was right and honorable. He has recently "regretted" some of the more extreme language he used, but has pointedly refused to repudiate the substance of his views then.
And this man wants to be President?!?!