Sy fits in perfectly with the current election, since like Kerry, he's been living off his Vietnam reputation for the past 35 years (and one day, someone is going to ask him to justify his KAL 007 "secret U.S. spy plane" story that was blown out the water when the Soviet Union fell and their records on the incident became available).

I pity the historians in the future. So many of these books will be immediately put on the remaindered tables with most getting pulped anyhow so that the only thing known about them will be their titles. But unlike the lost works of Aristotle or Socrates, at least they won't be missing much.

KAL 007 was the event that convinced me that Reagan was right, the USSR wasn't just a lousy place to live, it truly was a place where evil ruled.

History books like this and some statistical studies simply show that if you can cherry pick the beginning and ending points and suppress a few inconvenient facts, you can prove nearly anything.