VDH is a very good writer with a firm handle on history. However, there was one sentence almost caused me to choke on my coffee (emphasis added):

Senator Kennedy, the past exemplar of sober and judicious behavior in times of personal and national crisis, has gone beyond his once-wild charges of Texas conspiracies to slur Iraq as Bush's Vietnam — his apparently appropriate moral boosting for the young Marines, who, even as he spoke, were entering Fallujah to hunt down murderers and mutilators.

Since when has Ted Kennedy ever been an example of sober and judicious behavior? He really handled a personal crisis at Chappaquiddick well, didn't he? Made any Waitress Sandwichs lately, Ted?