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>>The media's impatience with Vietnam veterans' examination of the John Kerry record reflects a point of view that the debate is stealing attention from more pressing issues. Those would be the economy, health care, tax cuts for the rich and others deemed more urgent.

That is a point of view. An equally valid one exists. It is that no issue -- not outsourcing, not the price of prescription drugs in Canada, not whether the recovery is speedy or slow, or whether tax cuts disproportionately enrich those who pay taxes -- is more vital to America's health and prosperity than its security and the war on terrorism.

The stakes could not be higher. This nation's vulnerability to terrorist attack -- either because we are perceived to be weak, to lack resolve in Iraq or because we think of Osama bin Laden as a law enforcement, rather than a military, problem -- faces crucial tests.

Nothing then is more pertinent than Kerry's character and whether the lessons he learned in Vietnam make him more or less trustworthy to make decisions about our security and the lives of troops in the field. It is telling that the defining moment in his journey to anti-war activism, the Christmas in Cambodia, is an apparent fantasy.<<

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/wooten/2004/082904.html?UrAuth=`NYNUOaN[UbTTUWUXUUUZTYU]UWU]U^UZUaUZUcTYWYWZV

This is one great thinker and writer.