Behind the Headlines

Behind the Headlines: "For this, Kerrey received a Bronze Medal: 'I never bragged about it,' he avers, and I suppose for that we ought to be grateful. The ex-Senator from Nebraska has changed his story several times, but Klann has been consistent: he and the rest of 'Kerrey's Raiders' committed a war crime in in Thanh Phong, and this would appear to be legally as well as morally correct. The rules of warfare acknowledged by the US absolutely forbid the killing of unarmed noncombatants, especially prisoners. The irony here is that, for alleged crimes such as these, Radovan Karadizc and other Serbian 'war criminals' (including Slobodan Milosevic, the ex-leader of Yugoslavia) have been indicted by the self-sanctified 'International Criminal Tribunal' for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, and arrest warrants have been issued. But who will go up to the New School and slap the handcuffs on Kerrey?"