Don't Be Surprised If Terrorists Stage A Tet Offensive

Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec 31, 2007 | Austin Bay

[RDTF]

Sometime within the next six months or so, al-Qaida or Saddamist terrorists will attempt a Tet offensive.

No, Middle Eastern mass murderers don't celebrate the Vietnamese festival of Tet, but trust that America's enemies everywhere do celebrate and systematically seek to emulate the strategic political effects North Vietnam's 1968 attack obtained.

This spring marks the 40th anniversary of Hanoi's offensive (yes, 40 years, two generations). It will also mark the umpteenth time American enemies have attempted to win in the psychological and political clash of an American election what they cannot win on the battlefield.

In the course of Tet 1968, North Vietnamese, American and South Vietnamese forces all suffered tactical defeat and achieved tactical victories; that's usually the case in every military campaign. At the operational level, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) suffered a terrible defeat. As NVA regiments emerged from jungle-covered enclaves and massed for attack, they exposed themselves to the firepower of U.S. aircraft and artillery. The NVA units temporarily seized many cities at the cost of extremely heavy casualties.

However, Tet achieved the grand political ends North Vietnam sought. Tet was a strategic psychological attack launched in a presidential election year during a primary season featuring media-savvy "peace" candidates. "Peace" in this context must be italicized with determined irony; in the historical lens it requires an insistent blindness steeled by Stalinist mendacity to confuse the results of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam (e.g., Cambodia's genocide) with any honest interpretation of peace.

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[normy]

Don’t be surprised if the traitors in the media get bitch slapped back into their chair by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

[Moonman62]

Will Walter Cronkite come out of retirement to declare victory for the terrorists?

[Non-Sequitur]

I don’t think al Qaida has anywhere near the manpower that the Viet Minh had to launch their offensive.

[PastaMan]

It didn’t take a Viet Minh “manpower” for 9/11 to occur. Terrorist sleeper cells can have the same psychological effect.

[Carry_Okie]

"Peace" in this context must be italicized with determined irony; in the historical lens it requires an insistent blindness steeled by Stalinist mendacity to confuse the results of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam (e.g., Cambodia's genocide) with any honest interpretation of peace.

Waow, I haven't seen intellectual honesty in a newspaper like this in a coon's age.

[Dutch Boy]

Is that counting or not counting the media support?

[tje]

The question is “Will the media stage a Tet offensive?” I suspect they will.

[Max in Utah]

It's possible there could be many terrorist cells already in the US, waiting for the signal to strike.

How about New Year's Eve?

[Semper911]

Dude, this is a family show.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So we’d kill app. 35,000 terrorists and convince them that they cannot win? That’s great, now that Cronkite is known for the communist he was and is. We now have alternative media that has as much an audience as the MSM to refute the declarations of doom from Cronkite’s commie cockroach spawn.

[Pietro]

"Don’t be surprised if the traitors in the media get bitch slapped back into their chair by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity."

and don't forget FreeRepublic!!

[BenLurkin]

Yup.

Or try harder than ever to talk the economy into a recession.

Or both.

[ishabibble]

In Gen. Giap’s autobiography, he talks about preparing for surrender after Tet, until he heard that Walter Cronkite told all Americans that the VC had won it. Giap realized that he could use the American anti-war movement to win because of that. Here is a brief summary.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/7624/Generals/giap.htm

[TheRightGuy]

Dude, this is a family show.

whoops, sorry if i stepped otl ... just an inanane attempt at holiday humor

[SoFloFreeper]

...and don't be surprised when the media and the Democrat party begins to say "all is lost!" Because they will.

Except for the four or five weeks following 9/11, these two entities (really they're one and the same idealogically speaking) have been beating the drumbeat of defeat in the War on Terror.

[jwparkerjr]

I suspect there are many ‘cells’ in the US. But I also think they are not the least bit capable of doing anything that would require large-scale planning and detailed, coordinated performance. I think they exist only for the mental pleasure of those who support them and belong to them. They have learned first-hand, despite the best effort of the Lefties/MSM to prevent the lesson, that poking the US is not a good idea. My guess is that the majority of the members of these ‘cells’ have become accustomed to the good like in the US and have little real desire to trade that for their 72 virgins.

Don’t get me wrong, I feel the threat is very real and dangerous, but I think they also have come to fear the response by our side to any sort of homeland offensive.

In fact, I suspect if Bin Laden is still alive he spends his time in his hideout lamenting the success of 9/11. Oh, he talks a big game, but he has to know deep down in this heart of hearts that they were much better off before 9/11 when most Americans didn’t see them for what they are. They were completely off the radar screen until 9/11, one of the reasons why it was so successful.

My guess is the cells spend their time living a comfortable life at someone else’s expense and talking about ‘that day’ when they will attack the satan that is the US. All the while hoping and praying the orders never come!

[Gay State Conservative]

The world can depend on this happening.From the time of the conventions (if not sooner) right up until election day every filthy 9th Century knuckledragger will be in Iraq with Iranian made weapons and bombs blowing up every bakery,school and government office they can reach.

[TN4Liberty]

Completely inappropriate. Thanks for posting it. ;)