Kerry’s lies to the Senate affect the war on terror. It is part of why there are people overseas (including those overseas in their hearts) who are so quick to assume that US forces are, well, everything critics accuse them to be. Back in the Bad Old Days, Moscow pushed this stuff hard.

I had someone from a former Warsaw Pact country bring it up in an email exchange we were having after she saw Apocalypse Now. This was a while ago, and she had no idea who Kerry was, or that he was even currently a Senator. So when we have people taking for granted how brutal we are, John Kerry is one we can thank for it.