Nathan

The New York Times > Week in Review > The War Within: What They're Really Fighting About: "But Mr. Kerry and his adversaries were not just arguing over the old wounds, old medals and old words of an old war. They were squaring off in the ideological, cultural and class divide that began with Vietnam, found its name with Richard M. Nixon's appeal to the 'silent majority,' and remains as current as George W. Bush's election-year appeal to the 'heart and soul of America' in the theater of a new war."