following is an excerpt from the La times written by Max Boot, the aticle was re-printed on:
http://www.professorbainbridge.com
After winning election to the Senate in 1984, he was a vocal critic of support for the Contras fighting to free Nicaragua from the Sandinista dictatorship; he even journeyed to Managua to shake hands with strongman Daniel Ortega. He consistently voted against defense spending and in favor of a nuclear freeze. He opposed the 1983 invasion of Grenada ("a bully's show of force against a weak Third World nation") and the 1991 Persian Gulf War ("a war for pride, not for vital interests"). It did not matter to Kerry that the U.N. Security Council had voted unanimously to authorize military action to free Kuwait; at that point, isolationism was more important to him than multilateralism. ...
Surely it's no coincidence that his stances track precisely mainstream Democratic opinion, which was isolationist in the 1970s and 1980s, idealistically
Wanted to further say that Kerry's record in the senate is far more important than Vietnam, Isn't it interesting that Kerry's focus IS on Vietnam and NOT on his senate record, the republicans should focus on that.