Sherrod Brown Once Argued That American POWs in Vietnam Shouldn’t Be Released

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Citizens in Ohio require to believe long and tough about whether they wish to offer Democrat Sherrod Brown another fracture at being their senator. And they may wish to listen to this story while they’re comprising their minds.

The guys at the Ruthless podcast have actually uncovered an impressive letter Brown, 72, composed throughout the Vietnam War in which he argued that American detainees of war (POWs) ought to be kept in captivity to keep the U.S. from battle Hanoi.

An university student at the time, Brown composed a letter to an editor throughout the summer season of 1971 that questioned whether the American POWs being held by the North Vietnamese were an important deterrent to keeping hostilities from intensifying.

“If North Vietnam released our POWs, what would stop the U.S. from bombing Hanoi and Haiphong?” Brown composed, according to the letter exposed Wednesday by the Ruthless team.

Well, that’s rather something, isn’t it?

The Americans Brown was discussing at the time weren’t simple inanimate chess pieces on a geopolitical chessboard. They were our young boys being cooped by the communist North Vietnamese, and much of them, like John McCain, withstood years of abuse, hunger, seclusion, and poundings before lastly getting home.

Among my older siblings used a bracelet for many years that bore the name of among those young boys.

Who was to understand that a future U.S. senator, at that specific very same time, was more worried about stopping the U.S. armed force from performing operations than he had to do with the security of his fellow compatriots who were being cooped in inconceivable conditions.

And, no, Sherrod Brown never ever served in the armed force. He went right from college into a political profession.

Watch: @RuthlessPodcast on @SherrodBrown refuting launching American POWs in the Vietnam War. “Just in case you were wondering how long been in politics, the subject of the oped was the Vietnam War…Brown argued against North Vietnam releasing POWs…” https://t.co/dBVSGUwqsL– Senate Leadership Fund (@Senate_Fund) October 14, 2026

Naturally, Brown’s advocates are going to argue that he was a teen at the time and individuals alter. Fair enough.

Is there any real evidence that his political impulses have altered over the previous 55 years?

Not precisely. Brown went on to construct a five-decade political profession as a dependable liberal– he opposed the Iraq War, backed Obamacare and Biden’s significant costs expenses, supported abortion rights, was a strong protector of unions, desired harder weapon laws, and promoted for more liberal migration policies.

Simply put, his political DNA hasn’t truly altered an iota from his days of utilizing American POWs as a prop for his ideological reasonsings (such as they were).

The intriguing part about that old letter isn’t that it shows Sherrod Brown thinks the specific very same things he thought in 1971. Its worth, rather, is that Sherrod Brown informed the world really early on who he was– and who he still is.

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