Just
before the recent election John Kerry showed that he didn't learn what the rest of
America learned.
Kerry
said that our soldiers are dumb. Only
dumb people get sent to Iraq.
In
Kerry's heyday this was standard Lefty opinion and not particularly offensive
to most Americans. The movies, movie
stars and TV programs focused on drug using soldiers who hated their lives as
soldiers in a sweltering jungle.
The
consequence was that returning vets were shunned and abominably treated. Americans were a disgraceful lot, led by the young anti-war politicos.
America
suffered personal anguish for that morally outrageous behavior by the Left in
its treatment of our military. But.
America learned. What John Kerry said was unacceptable and he was widely ridiculed as he should have been. We learned a lesson. Societies do learn. It is immoral to mistreat people who give their lives for you.