Anyone with even a slender knowledge of Senator John Kerry¹s
distant and recent past should realize that the
Massachusetts liberal is unqualified to be president of the
United States. Kerry has consistently failed to comprehend
both the dangers posed to America by its enemies and the
responses necessary to meet those threats.
On April 22, 1971, John Kerry, Vietnam veteran, appeared
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss
the war. His statements are relevant today because they
demonstrate his long-standing inability to understand
national security issues.
Kerry said that in Vietnam, U.S. soldiers ³are given
the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history²
and ³there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which
could happen that realistically threatens the United
States of America.²
The United States sent troops to Southeast Asia to oppose
communist aggression. Vietnam was a hot spot in the Cold
War and that struggle was not about ³nothing.²
President Harry Truman, a Democrat who understood the
conflict, said, ³It must be the policy of the United States
to support free people who are resisting attempted
subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.²
Revealing that he had no intention of embracing Truman¹s
steadfastness, Kerry made reference to ³the mystical war
against communism.² Communist expansion threatened the
United States but Kerry did not believe it was worth
opposing. WHAT?????????????