[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I still consider Walter Cronkite to the the biggest reason for our failure in Vietnam. He, with one news broadcast and opinion, managed to snatch communist defeat from the jaws of victory!

[Resettozero]

I still consider Walter Cronkite to the the biggest reason...

Before that, the great Ed Murrow's handling of the McCarthy hearings paved the way for Communism to flourish in ALL the media; the media that never has faltered since to preach that brand of Socialism and scorn Americanism.

(Has anything truly good EVER come out of Hollyweird? Enjoyable, yes. Good? No. )

[NorthMountain]

I still consider Walter Cronkite to the the biggest reason for our failure in Vietnam.

Cronkite was a liar, and a communist, and a traitor ... and he had plenty of company at ABCNBCCBS.

[ExTxMarine]

Commie Cronkite was the reason that America soured on the war, and the reason young Americans started hating the military.

But, we lost that war because after Nixon ended it, with a ceasefire agreement, the Democrat Congress basically DENIED our allies of any of the assistance and support which Nixon promised in the ceasefire. Once North Vietnam realized that America wasn’t going to actually support and defend our “ally,” they swooped in and raped, killed, maimed, and murdered - AT WILL!

[AmericanVictory]

Jean Jaques Servan-Schreiber nailed it. We won on the battlefield but were outflanked in the media, thanks to Kronkite and others, and on our college campuses. There Ho Chi Minh outflanked LBJ.