Does Vietnam matter?

It seems to matter a lot to Kerry, who constantly uses his service in that war as evidence that he is not a chicken. I don't know what that service really has to do with his qualifications to determine foreign policy, though. His post-service anti-war activism seems more relevant today.

I think that this story (link via Instapundit) is pretty much irrelevant, but the fact that the John Kerry of today does not want to engage the enemy definitely does matter and it matters a great deal.