I completely agree with Jim Webb’s son. I had no problem with his father’s answer in the debate that the enemy he’s most proud of having is the man who almost killed him with a grenade in Vietnam. Of course, that enemy soldier “is no longer around.”
I guess some people thought it was hard to hear someone sound like they were proud to have killed a man, but I thought it was harder to hear Hillary Clinton say that she is proud to consider the Iranians her enemy.
I’d rather a politician be proud of the episode that won him the Navy Cross than proud to hate an entire nation of people.
And if that’s a distortion of what Clinton intended to say, well, so too is it a distortion to suggest that Jim Webb was saying he was proud of killing a man.
What he did was save another soldier’s life at great risk to his own.
I don’t support Jim Webb’s presidential aspirations, but I have no issues with his service to the country or his debate response.