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ArtKramr wrote:
[quoting J. F. Kerry] There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed.... The truth hurts. Not everyone can withstand it. Do you consider this to be the truth of your own combat experience as well? Care to tell us about the atrocities which you committed and which we should, by extension, assume were common among US Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen in WW2? We'd be very interested in hearing about the injuries you have sustained from the truth, and how you have withstood them. Or perhaps your war was somehow different for its participants. Since we supposedly post here on the topic of military aviation, rather than the exploits of plastic men in plastic boats, why not talk about strafing women and children in the streets of the cities and towns of Nazi-occupied Europe v air operations in free-fire zones in Vietnam? Does it hurt to kill - sometimes, often, never? Is there a greater purpose, which though it may not justify them, nevertheless renders certain actions unavoidable? How far will you go to justify the rhetoric of any particular member of the politician class, whom most would agree are no less embodiments of the principle of "necessary evil" than are Soldiers, but as politicians can rarely claim the honor properly accorded to those who defend us in battle? John Kerry's military record is, shall we say, erratic. His political record is strangely skewed to the left, his principles opaque, and his biography a cliche of personal and political ambition comparable to that of Bill Clinton, but without any vestige of personality to explain why anyone would find him of interest -- as a candidate, nor even as a golf partner. Would you shoot skeet with John Kerry? I'd only do it if I could issue him one round at a time, and then I'd sure never turn my back on him. -- Jack "Cave ab homine unius libri" |
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