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A Steyn triptych on Kerry
Mark Steyn has had three excellent columns in the last three days—how can one not be impressed?—about the walking, talking fiasco named John Kerry. The first column, which is brilliant, is about Kerry’s unbelievably witless, staggeringly self-damaging response to the Swifties. (If Kerry is this inept dealing with mere political adversaries whose weapons are nothing other than a book and a couple of tv ads, what would he be like dealing with foreign enemies yielding real weapons?) The second column is about Bush as the opposite of Kerry: while Kerry, as discussed in the first column, is the ultimate self-inflictor of wounds, repeatedly launching grenades that send shrapnel into his own rear end, Bush is a poker player who cagily waits while his opponents play losing hands that they vainly imagine are unbeatable. One such false winning hand the Dems played was their oh-so-confident belief that Kerry’s four months in Vietnam sealed the election for them. The third column is unusually serious for Steyn. He condemns Kerry as the single person most responsible for America’s emotional trauma over Vietnam. The point is interesting, but questionable. Didn’t President Lyndon Johnson play a slightly larger role in the disaster than Lt. (j.g.) Kerry?
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