The only people who can stop that are generally a lot younger than you are and fighting over in Iraq. The war has been so badly mishandled at this point that only the memory of 9/11 and an understanding that leaving is somewhat worse than staying has kept the public in it this long. Even so, it's cost us as Americans the lives of thousands of our best and brightest, about 30-40% of our hardware, and billions of dollars. As conservatives, it's cost us Congress, our party unity, and will likely cost us the 2008 election.
And now, out of context and 40 years after the fact, I'm hearing about the Tet Offensive? What does the Tet Offensive have to do with Iraq? I start hearing about it and about how much all you all hate Walter Cronkite and I can't help but think that your eyes aren't on this war, but on a previous one.
You would do well to seek out some Vietnamese refugees yourself and inquire what they went through after our Democrat led Congress of the time forced us to abandon them in their hour of need.
I'm originally from Minnesota, and took advantage of the opportunity to speak to many Hmong who were veterans of the CIA's war in Laos.
Like I said, history repeating itself.
After their defeat in the Tet of '68 Offensive," reports have stated that General Vo Ngyuen Giap was considering negotiating a surrender. He heard Walter Cronkite's news broadcast that we weren't winning after all and saw the unrest in America. Instead of surrender and ending the fighting, he changed his tactics and started targeting Americans more than he was.
Declassified KGB documents show that even they fed the anti-war left propaganda and lies, convincing them we were losing and committing heinous crimes.
North Vietnamese have now said that the anti-war left were "essential" to their victory.
Looking at today's media and resurgence of anti-war lefties, we see the same thing happening.
That is the history we are trying to stop from repeating itself.
The media is covering the Iraq war in about the same fashion as is covered Tet. Once more rooting for the folks killing US and allied soldiers, as well as civilians. Giving short shrift to our Victories and progress, while covering the other side's minor successes as Great Victories.
They even are pulling the same trick of using local reporters whose sympathies lie with the bad guys.