Today, Independence Day, seems like a perfectly appropriate time to praise two war heroes: Lt. Commander John McCain, shot down in 1967 over North Korea by an enemy missile; and Army Captain (now General) Wesley Clark, shot four times three years later by a Viet Cong soldier. You would think these two war heroes would have much in common, and that their close brushes with death would have created a bond, a personal attachment, a mutual respect, that would transcend the vulgar and intemperate clashes of politics. But such is not the case. On June 29, Clark appeared on “Face the Nation” and went after McCain’s military record, saying McCain’s heroic service does not qualify him to be commander in chief of the United States. Clark continued by noting that even though McCain had commanded “a large Navy squadron,” it wasn’t a...
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