Posted on 07/25/2004 2:15:51 PM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid
We will get treated to much propaganda in the coming week about John Kerry's Vietnam "hero" status. Maybe he was a hero, but it is important to keep things in perspective. Kerry may have been a hero in battle, but he was a loser in the war.
It is commonly accepted that we won every major battle of the Vietnam War, even the guerilla war that we were so inexperienced in fighting. We lost the war only because we did not have the political will to continue.
John Kerry was a big factor in the political war. He testimony to congress, his involvement in the veterans movement against the war, and his outrageous (and self-incriminating) statements about the behavior of our troops in the war all contributed to the loss of our will to continue.
Like many others, he cast himself as a man of conscience. But no man of conscience would stand idly by while the North crushed the South by military force and then exacted over 600,000 lives in Cambodia. The silence of the "peace" protesters in light of these atrocities only demonstrates their hypocrisy.
All of this bloodshed could have been avoided if the United States simply maintained a commitment to the area after the Paris Peace Accords were finalized.
John Kerry may have saved a few lives, but he dishonored the 55,000 lives that were lost, and subsequently wasted, when we left Vietnam.
There are 55,000 names on a wall in Washington that represent the courage and winning spirit of America. John Kerry trashed that courage and idealism in his anti-war activities.
Our enemy proved that we were right in Vietnam. Not only was the forced "unification" of a Catholic/Agrarian country with a Buddist/Industrial country an egregious violation of everything that we stand for, the bloodshed and religious persecution that followed only reinforced our moral justification for the war.
Please point out to the newspapers, networks and individuals who promote John Kerry as a hero in battle that he was a loser in war. Ask them why he didn't protest the real "savage" war in Vietnam, the one raged by the North against its neighbors.
Benedict Arnold was a war hero.
Adolph Hitler was a decorated war veteran.
Kerry was no war "hero" according to those who served with him. In their opinion he was unfit for command.
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