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"We paid a high price [during the Ted offensive] but so did you [Americans]... not only in lives and materiel.... Do not forget the war was brought into the living rooms of the American people. ...i>The most important result of the Tet offensive was it made you de-escalate the bombing, and it brought you to the negotiation table. It was, therefore, a victory...."
"The war was fought on many fronts. At that time the most important one was American public opinion."
“my friend does not even think of himself as a leftist...”
well, maybe his friend thinks of himself as communist scu&bag.
I hate to undermine a valid argument, but the Roman legions did occasionally lose. The battle of the Teutoburg Forest comes immediately to mind.
“As we stood at one such site, Washington Post correspondent Peter Braestrup asked an American TV cameraman, ‘Why don’t you film this?’ He answered, ‘I am not here to spread anti-communist propaganda’.”
I heard some snips of the aftermath on the radio, the NVA’s unit radios as the Communists were trying to regroup and then to get out of SVN before their casualties reached 100%. Some were told to hide their weapons and then get the best they could from the Americans to surrender. Some were told to disband, go home to their villages. Then, in the fall America began to stand down. We didn’t chase the enemy out of their last pockets. We backed off and gave them room to resupply and the evacuation stopped and reversed. It wasn’t just the Media that did it to us, though that was a huge part of it, the micromanagers in Washington who were more interested in “sending messages” than in actually winning anything were snatching failure from the jaws of victory.
We lost politically because we still have traitors like Kerry, fonda, code pink, demorats and other turncoats.
***Walter Cronkite, the famous news anchor of CBS, led the American media reaction.***
I despise that man still today.
In other news...
EL CID is out on DVD! EL CID is out on DVD!
One of the top 10 US traitors in history IMO.