What Tet Was And Wasn't
The MSM and the Left are going off because they believe President Bush equated current events in Iraq with the Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Unfortunately, they don't actually understand what the Tet Offensive actually was.
TigerHawk fills in the details of which we need to be mindful. There isn't only a Cronkite with a megaphone any longer.
That is, of course, not what the President said. He merely agreed that there was an appropriate comparison to be made between the Tet offensive and the violence we are seeing in Iraq today. I agree. The question is, what was the lesson of Tet (the all-out offensive of the Viet Cong in early 1968, at the time of the "Tet" new year holiday in Vietnam)?
I was in Tet. It was a dark and stormy week.
Iraq is very much the same ... a last ditch, all out effort to dishearten the people back home.
Coupled with the 'protests' in '68, that was all it took to lose.
Looks like history MIGHT repeat itself.
Hey Dan, I have known you for some time now, fuck those gay baiting and gay outing assholes. You owe them nothing.
Move on to the important issues.
Like staying alive in a world with appeasers in control.
Like 1939.
Posted by: Steel Turman | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 11:44 PM
Thanks for the link, Dan. Much appreciated.
Posted by: TigerHawk | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 12:50 AM
"Stand-up battles with the US military will get you dead in a hurry."
Posted by: mojo | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 11:19 AM
Dear Steel Turman,
Oh boo hoo soldier-boy. You loser.
Posted by: ladida | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Well. La. Di. Da. .. I guess something makes you a winner. What is it? That helmet you wear to keep bird shit out of your hair?
Posted by: Phoenix | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 09:18 PM
UK's Daily Telegraph has a piece on this by historian John Keegan:
http://tinyurl.com/yztcx4
"Indeed, insofar as Tet was a defeat for the United States and for the South Vietnamese government, it was because the American media decided to represent it as such."
"The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield, but in the American media's treatment of news from the front line."
Posted by: yak40 | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 10:26 PM
ladida ...
I won't muddy up the waters over here at Dan's.
You have something to say to me, bitch, come on over to my house.
Always room for one more at the abattoir.
Posted by: Steel Turman | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Dan ...
Pardon my French, amigo.
Posted by: Steel Turman | Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 10:56 PM