Clinton is tarnished by his pardon of the fugitive financier, Marc Rich. And now, Kerrey's sorrow. Paranoid American liberals can be forgiven their conspiracy theories. A massacre is an event in the politics of retrospection as well as a battle in warfare. Inclusion in the category is history's rough and ready way of saying sorry to the dead innocents.
Massacres give their history back to the one-time losers, whose cause can now march on.
It was here that a unit of seven American commandos slaughtered the innocents on the night of February 25, 1969. Bob Kerrey was always unusual - a reflective and independent politician. His career went in fits and starts. He had a famous affair with the actress Debra Winger and had long been celebrated as the recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honour. This is a morality tale of apocalypse then and America now.