Because I do find it hard to believe that a major party nominee for President would lie so flagrantly for decades about such a thing.
If the secret gun-running missions are true, Kerry needs to explain why he feels he can chat about military secrets with reporters. And why someone who does that would still be a fit C-in-C.
I would be very nervous about this as well, but for one major thing: the entire contemporary Democrat party has a post-modern brand. Post modernism is a reaction to modernism, with its pseudoscientific determinism. Dialect materialism, which allegedly dictated the development of communism from capitalism, was a product of modernism.
Modernism was very restrictive, since its pseudoscientific precepts, having their basis in Calvinistic double predestination, by definition denied free will and liberty. A ruling elite (the apparatchiks of a central committee plus celebrity and academic "intelligentsia") will govern the masses, who are unable to govern themselves. As a reaction to those ideas, the pseudoscience is rejected in favor of a philosophy of relational concepts. Having no absolutes morally or politically or philsophically, except the idea that there are no absolutes, post-modernism suggests that each person has its own perceptual reality.
A participant in that morass of relativism becomes unable to discern truth from self-deception. John Kerry is a good example of a very pathological manifestation, philosophically, of post-modern malaise. He honestly believes that with enough repetition, his reality can become the nation's.
Because I do find it hard to believe that a major party nominee for President would lie so flagrantly for decades about such a thing. OK, you may find it hard to believe, but his commanding officer and the men who served with him are providing compelling testimony. Ask any VN combat vet, rookies were NOT selected for secret missions.
If the secret gun-running missions are true, Kerry needs to explain why he feels he can chat about military secrets with reporters. And why someone who does that would still be a fit C-in-C. Kerry will send in his sycophants. Like all the libs, he doesn't need to exlain squat.