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...what Kerrey's Raiders did that night in Thanh Phong can be cathartic. To condemn it is something else, requiring a clarity that was almost never available to young men shooting in the dark. It is a clarity our nation likewise never had at the time. When we judge Bob Kerrey, we judge our nation as well...
Against that dreary background of official hubris, myopia and duplicity, it seems odd that former Senator Bob Kerrey is hitting newspaper headlines and television screens because of the revelation that his team of Navy SEALs killed innocent women and children while on a mission in the Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential...
Vietnam was some omelet. But it was a war, after all--a tragic, confusing, mishandled business in which the enemy merged with the civilian population, and the girl who did the laundry might blow you up with a grenade hidden beneath the folded underwear. Brave, decent men like Bob Kerrey got hurt or killed and sometimes made mistakes that killed the innocent...
...term collateral damage implies something secondary and unimportant. But it's the collateral damage that most haunts us later on. It's because of My Lai, or incidents like Bob Kerrey's night in the Mekong Delta, that that war keeps coming back and back and back to the surface of the American conscience, all these years later--unquiet ghosts that you may still see flickering, from time to time, in Kerrey's troubled...
...remote-control fireplaces! The never-cooked-in kitchens! The shark tanks! HGTV president Burton Jablin admits it's all a bit far removed from the sawdusty realm of Bob Vila. But the shows have helped fast-growing HGTV expand beyond its swatch-wielding base. "It's informational voyeurism," Jablin says, maintaining that the average homesteader can still take away useful tips from Joy Philbin interviewing Ivana Trump in her "cozy," 10,000-sq.-ft. Palm Beach house on At Home with... ("Set yourself a budget!" Ivana advises.) "Though," he adds, "certainly people also watch for the catty appeal of saying...