The title of their book is to be taken seriously: �Unfit for Command.� Kerry�s testimony before the Senate called the Swift boat veterans and hundreds of thousands of others � and the whole structure of command, indeed the whole country � hypocritical, self-interested, even criminal. To this day, John Kerry has not said publicly that his friends among the Swift Boat vets were not war criminals. He has not apologized.
If Kerry had been more modest and truthful about the other most dramatic episodes he recounted to his biographers, it would be unseemly to question his right to his three Purple Hearts, Silver Star, and Bronze Star. But eyewitnesses saw these events very differently, and normal processes in awarding medals seem not to have been followed. Anyone who wishes to understand our era is going to have to read this book."
-- Michael Novak.
Posted by Greg Ransom
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