August 11, 2004

"DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN observed that Kerry's convention speech finally gave Vietnam veterans the respect that they'd long been denied by portraying one of them as a heroic, successful figure rather than the image of baby killers and burnouts that had been created in the popular mind. This would be poetic justice indeed, given that John Kerry played a large part in creating that image." -- James Joyner, editor of Stratigic Insights. Posted by Greg Ransom