Astute reader Kenlac noted how yesterday's Washington Post op ed blasting Kerry has a paragraph that sounds an awful lot like a paragraph in a Boston Globe op ed published the same day. Are the Post and the Globe publishing GOP talking points? Did one plagiarize from the other? Or is this simply a very odd coincidence?
"He talked movingly of how his combat experience would temper his decision making: 'I know what kids go through when they are carrying an M-16 in a dangerous place and they can't tell friend from foe.' The responsibility of sending troops into danger should weigh on a commander in chief. But so must the responsibility of protecting the nation against a shadowy foe not easily deterred by traditional means. Mr. Kerry last night elided the charged question of whether, as president, he would have gone to war in Iraq. He offered not a word to celebrate the freeing of Afghans from the Taliban, or Iraqis from Saddam Hussein, and not a word about helping either nation toward democracy."
What op ed writer Jeff Jacoby said in the Boston Globe on the same day:
"He spoke of his empathy for the young grunts 'carrying an M-16 in a dangerous place' and about his respect for 'all who serve in our armed forces today.' Couldn't he have spared a few words to salute those troops for their two great achievements of recent years -- the toppling of vicious tyrannies in Afghanistan and Iraq?"
