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Paradox 2004: Kerry Running As Nixon 1968.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(ON THE RIGHT)
Byline: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
It was a mistake for Sen. John Kerry to spend four days at the Democratic convention establishing his connection to Vietnam. But it was oddly appropriate.
More than any other politician of our time -- including Sen. John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years in a Vietnam prison camp rather than 4 1/2 months on a Swift boat -- Kerry has been haunted and shaped by Vietnam.
Kerry in turn has been one of the most important shapers of the meaning of Vietnam for the rest of the country. Over the course of his three decades in public life, he has presented Vietnam in three very different ways.
First, the one that electrified the nation and made him famous, was Vietnam as moral outrage, a crime, a place where American soldiers "with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command" acted like "the armies of Genghis Khan."
That was Kerry in his anti-war phase testifying before Congress in 1971.
Second, Vietnam as a strategic error, a quagmire stumbled into by a well-meaning nation.
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