You stick the Senator s nose in the dirt, provide him with a few wash cloths, put everyone else in the Senate on notice that you have files . Kerrey should not take any of it, personally. He is just a war-crimes commodity. They will brush him off, make the story disappear and bring out Sharon for another trip to Sulzberger s laundry on 43rd street. War crimes happen.
Lets move on.
Bad things happen in war, army snipers kill hundreds of unarmed Palestinians and maim thousands of others. So, next time Sharon s crime is in play, they are all ready with the defense. Watch how Safire, Mona Charen and the other Israel Firsters rally to Kerrey s defense. Regardless of the spin at the Times, it would be slanderous to compare Kerrey to Sharon. But, he also went in to that hamlet as a superbly trained Navy Seal with a mission to terrorize the population.