The lies fed to the public by Walter Crankcase and SeeBS about Tet was a bigger hoax and scam than Algore’s “global warming”.
I will read this book.
I have my own theory - that the US could have established a Peace similar to Korea, at least - if we had remained committed to our S. Vietnam allies until 1976 or slightly beyond that. The death of Mao and the purge of the ultra-leftists in China after Mao’s death would have had dramatic effects on China’s outright support for North Vietnam.
In 2009 American gets kicked in the groin again because of its blind trust in a single man..
It’s hard to sustain a war effort......
At first people want to fight the commies or Saddam Hussein...then, then as costs in lives and money add up, they question their support and turn against those who drummed up the support in the first place-—feeling they were manipulated......
At first people think “we’re against”........but then they wonder who they are sending others to fight FOR......seeing abstractions and gray areas....and wondering who the friends or enemies are.....
It hurt to have Saddam Hussein on ice for so long, because as long as he was alive, people feared he could come back again.....
If only the soldiers who found Saddam had tossed a grenade into the spider hole......
As far as Tet was concerned, it might have been a victory, but people were looking for an excuse to turn against the war———people lose their stomach after a while of watching other people getting killed on their behalf.. and at some point people feel immoral to support a war unless it’s against Hitler or a domestic invasion, etc....
I was there during TET— hit with a lot of rockets, but we did much more damage to them. The North Vietnamese general (Giap?) wrote a book and said they were ready to surrender until they heard the liberal press over here.