■ MAKING IT OFFICIAL: CNN is trying to develop a new talk show hosted by former president Bill Clinton.
■ Our views on the Bob Kerrey matter line up with those expressed by editor-at-large John O’Sullivan elsewhere in this issue. Like most Americans, we want to give the former senator the benefit of every doubt because of his valor and decency. But that disposition cannot wipe away the doubts themselves. Some conservatives have mistakenly leapt to Kerrey’s side because they sense the charge against him amounts to a charge against American involvement in Vietnam generally. But Kerrey’s defenders do more to discredit America when they suggest, as too many of them do, that war crimes were numerous and routine there, so why sort through them? We believe otherwise. There is no statute of limitations on war crimes. The ones alleged here are sufficiently serious to deserve whatever investigation can be made—an investigation that, we earnestly hope, clears Kerrey and his fellow SEALs of an awful charge.
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