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...nonchalance, returning to Vietnam for McCain is like dipping into his life-force. Saying John McCain could have succeeded as he has in politics without having been a POW in Vietnam is like saying George W. Bush would be the Republican nominee for President if his name were George W. Smith. It's not that it's impossible; it's just impossible to imagine...
When McCain reminisces, as he did outside the former POW prison where he was savagely forced to sign a war-crimes confession, his voice is tinged with the nostalgia others feel for their bright college years. "My cell was over there," he says. "That was the interrogation room. That's where the guards ate." As he speaks, Vietnamese pedestrians walk by and give him and his press entourage quizzical looks. Young boys try to sell him postcards. Though this is the week Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniversary of its victory, in a country where 53% of the population is under...
...royally wrathful. He marched off, but the ensuing peace was short-lived. He had apparently called a pow-wow with Jon, another UMass student who needed Bob’s support in the following day’s MACR election. Jon quickly found his way over to where Sean and I were standing and talking and proceeded to lecture Sean—with nary a smile or laugh—about “stealing Bob’s woman.” Huh? As far as I could tell, my blatantly insulting Bob all night?...
...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...
...held incommunicado for 12 days. Later his wife learned he had been in a prison where the Russians claim to "filter" terrorists from civilians--using torture, according to human-rights groups. On Feb. 3 the Russians suddenly made a deal with the Chechens to swap Babitsky for two Russian POWs. The outrage was immediate. "What kind of state arrests a journalist and then uses him in a POW swap?" asks Radio Liberty's Moscow editor, Mikhail Sokolov...