Posted on 01/10/2022 3:42:49 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Obama pined for the days when all Americans received their news from the same three channels reporting the same stories; what a bizarre thing to admit publicly.
I remember his nick name being Walter C0ckbite.
When spent several days in Saigon before going up country he was extensively breifed by Westmoreland, Rosson, and Mike Davison, MACV G2. While I never particular larly liked Cronkite he was no patsy and seen a good bit of WW2 in western Europe. He made several critical remarks on US complacency as before Bulge but said the enemy had been been administered a crushing defeat. In Hue the same thing. Marine officer’s breifed him and C didn’t buy the holding the lily and called it a ‘close thing’ and once again US artillery and air dominance secured the victory but there was no doubt the enemy was throughly beaten. So who pulled his chai and told him ty ditch the ‘tpugh fight and not without significant US errors but a solid defeat of the enemy’ and replace it with ‘the is in a stalemate with no way out’. People at the top of CBS who to topple LBJ and bring the war to end as a defeat is my quess.
“Yep. He helped keep the war going. Ho Chi Minh and General Giap were discussing how to salvage the Tet disaster with a peace treaty. Then they turned on the Evening News and saw Croonkite. They knew then that they would win because of the USA’s traitorous media.“
Yes this is factual.
North Vietnam may very well have folded had Cronkite not spouted his garbage.
+1
That was the deep state propaganda. The Military set the communists back by about 4 years. It was about 1972 when the commies started gaining enough people and equipment for a big fight again. There were about 17 commies killed for each American. TET backfired big time on the commies. The war was being won but riots at home and Crinkite convinced LBJ to pull out
I believe the problem was that Americans had been led to believe that such an attack by the VC was impossible because we’d licked them so badly; the images of the embassy being attacked supposedly hit hard.
I’d think I’d been lied to as well if I watched the news from 1965 through 1968 and saw that; the inflated body counts and lack of real progress came home to roost with the Tet Offensive. If nothing else, it was clear that the ARVN couldn’t defend South Vietnam without massive US intervention/boots on the ground.
1972 was a different matter altogether, as it pitted conventional North Vietnamese forces against the ARVN with heavy US air support but no boots on the ground. While it was rebuffed, it did leave North Vietnam holding about a tenth of South Vietnam - and we agreed to leave them there as we signed our peace treaty. Thieu was furious, and understandably claimed the US had betrayed South Vietnam; I guess he just didn’t understand that political changes in the US would doom his country.
More grist for the end times fear porn mill.
The news media relayed the military line that we were winning, and the enemy was on the ropes; the Tet Offensive shouldn’t have been possible. The enemy from Tet (the VC) never really recovered; in 1972 and 1975 it was the North Vietnamese Army, not South Vietnamese communists, who fought against the ARVN. The VC were reduced to support roles.
This damn auto correct changes words constantly. I apologise for the crap garbled product. It is particularly bad about military events The people building. the algorithm clearly don’t know anything about the military
As dad said.
South Vietnam had plenty of communists; they were armed by Red China and North Vietnam, had their own units (and flag), and attacked within South Vietnam. The North Vietnam Army itself wore their own uniforms/helmets, and generally attacked from outside South Vietnam (crossing borders to do so).
Our response to Tet left the former in tatters (as the popular uprising they hoped would generate mass support for them failed to materialize), leaving the only hope for victory/unification in the hands of “foreign” (North Vietnamese) troops. That is why in 1972 and 1975 the enemy wasn’t wearing black pajamas, but NVA uniforms - and they rode in tanks.
Walter Cronkite was a member of Bohemian Grove and the voice of the owl. This is one weird group and I believe it is Satanic.
Well, he knows the truth now.
Hope he likes it as he’s set for eternity with it now.
The Tet Offensive had almost completely wiped out the Vietcong soldiers...
I agree, and have been stressing that point; it turned the war into a conventional one between North and South Vietnam (rather than a communist South Vietnamese insurgency supplied by North Vietnam and Red China). I pointed out that they never recovered, playing little role in the events of 1972 or 1975.
The press was staying in Saigon with plenty of booze and hookers. The vast majority of the press simply rewrote Army press releases and sent them on. After Tet they realized that the Army was leading them on and they turned on the Army.
No one is innocent in the Vietnam debacle, except those of us who put our boots on the ground.
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