What Happened The Last Time Kerry Got His Way

By resurrecting Vietnam as a campaign issue, Kerry didn't just bring his own conduct in that theater under the lights, he stirred up lots of old memories. And, it's worth noting that Kerry did not recently come to be on the wrong side of history.

In the decade following our ignominious withdrawal, communists would fertilize Cambodia's rice fields with the bones of millions of human skeletons. Of the millions desperately fleeing the daily terrors of communist rule, countless thousands would perish in the Gulf of Thailand or the South China Sea when their pathetically rickety boats capsized under their own weight. If those millions of deaths weren't enough to convince you that fighting communism in Southeast Asia was a truly righteous cause, then mere words could never persuade you.