Whether he wins or loses the presidency, let’s all thank God for John Kerry, and his statement last night that he “defended this country.”

It beggars belief that after thirty years of damning Vietnam vets and their leaderhip from all sides and angles, the enlightened view has suddenly become that Vietnam was a “defensive” war (not to mention the now-universal pride [as opposed to reluctant acceptance] in electing a Vietnam War participant to office). Whether he wins or loses the presidency, let’s all thank God for John Kerry, because the Left will never be able to make their 1970s claims again without embarrassment.

As for comparisons with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s not clear to me how these were any less “defensive” than Senator Kerry’s Vietnam was, but then, ideologues always live in a bit of a historical and logical bubble, don’t they. Perhaps the best thing we can hope for is that 30 years from now, an Iraq or Afghanistan War veteran will run for office as a Democrat, and attempt the same revision.