"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."
Gen Giap, in an interview with Morley Safer in 1989, said this:
"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. ...
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."