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To: Perseverando

Don’t understand the comparison with Tet, which was a huge defeat for the NVA and Vietcong but portrayed as a victory for them by the MSM.


9 posted on 01/11/2016 10:51:08 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

the Tet offensive was a new methodology to guerrilla warfare. It’s surprise and multi-faceted approach caught the SV
Army and US Army off guard. Yes, it ended in failure...sort of. It depends on from whose vantage point you are looking.

From the perspective of military campaign success it ended in failure as the SV and US armies ramped up and crushed them. From the perspective of the NVA they were able to administer a blow to the SV Army and the US, it also eliminated the VC as a competitor for power. A two-fer.


16 posted on 01/11/2016 11:22:34 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: kabar

“Don’t understand the comparison with Tet, which was a huge defeat for the NVA and Vietcong but portrayed as a victory for them by the MSM.”

The media supports islam, and any little loss they have is blown out of proportion, and any win they have is touted as our defeat.

Seems a fair comparison there.


25 posted on 01/11/2016 11:53:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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