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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12648)	2/25/2000 10:23:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Surely you're right--the Vietnam war was tragic from any angle for everyone involved. I don't think the point was that McCain is holier than the men who weren't captured and who continued to drop bombs, but that the psychological task of being a healer and a unifier now falls to him and he can carry that mantle effectively as a leader. You know, these N. Vietnamese villagers treated McCain and company brutally, but consider the perspective of these peasants: these guys were dropping bombs on them and babies were dying--from their perspective these guys were evil incarnate--how could they know anything different? Nothing excuses the sadistic behavior of the N. Vietnamese officer/torturers--but McCain is simply uniquely positioned, has a unique authority, to be a healer on all sides of the war in this country, over there, and in between. The Vietnam war left terrible wounds in this country--the Economist article really gets at why McCain would have a unique moral authority that people would rally to. That is why I think, when McCain says his mission is to "inspire young Americans to give themselves to a cause greater than themselves" he has the right stuff.