POLITICAL CORNER
Referendum on Vietnam WarTHE SELECTION of John Kerry as the Democratic standard bearer has turned this election into a referendum on the Vietnam War.
After exemplary service Kerry left the war and opposed it, calling it a mistake. This is the position taken by left-wing academics and communist sympathizers everywhere. The opposite view, that Vietnam was a necessary and noble war, was taken by all the anti-Communists, starting with President John Kennedy. The Soviet Union was ultimately brought down by its economic inability to support its worldwide Communist campaigns -- the war in Korea, the war in Vietnam, the war in Afghanistan. Kerry's supporters are largely those who regret the war in Vietnam. His opponents believe that we must occasionally fight for our beliefs, and that Iraq is not much different from Vietnam, except that the Communists have morphed into Muslim terrorists.
RONALD E. SCOTT © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.
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