Spot on regarding Tet, but the Big Lie started before that, possibly here:
Or Here:
I'm sure Freeper's with better memories than I can take it back even further.
Democrat collusion with the Communists is why this “Trump collusion” effort is so utterly ridiculous. It’s been a long, long time since Democrats were anti-communist.
Spot on regarding Tet, but the Big Lie started before that, possibly here:
Or Here:
I'm sure Freeper's with better memories than I can take it back even further.
Yeo, I recall how Walter Cronkite reported from Vietnam, that the war was a lost cause. He swayed public opinion in the matter.
Kind of odd, since wasn’t it a Democrat war at the time and conducted by corrupt Democrats who wanted themselves and their friends to profit from it without having to immediately win it and liberate the South Vietnamese?
This disinformation campaign was spearheaded by the Most Trusted Man In The News, Walter Cronkite.
Having seen the author in a 2011 CSPAN talk reaired this weekend, I just ordered this book on Tet:
(search for it on Bookfinder.com, it’s about half this price)
The author covers both wars: the media vs. U.S. and commies vs U.S. (yes I recognize the overlap).
I was impressed with the author’s view that aligns well with this article and am looking forward to reading the book.
20 years ago I read a book that Gen Giap wrote on the war from his viewpoint. He admits he believed the North had lost the war after Tet. The Viet Cong was destroyed and remaining VC elements were absorbed into the NVA. The NVA by Giap’s own estimate was only 30% combat effective after Tet. He was completely shocked by the reaction of the US media.
The VC entered Saigon thinking the locals would rise up and join them to gain control of the city. What the VC encountered were women pouring the hot oil from cooking breakfast on the VC as they walked down narrow streets and alleyways.
The NVA was defeated during Tet, but they were decimated on the HCM Trial returning to the north. The Trail always had spotter teams for air strikes, when the military saw NVA retreat in progress, they dropped and boated in even more teams.
Reading some comments at the source site...
One counter-point was that part of the shock felt by the American public over the Tet Offensive was, whether we defeated it or not, that the enemy could have even launched such an offensive.
To that point, the poster claims, the military and administration had been saying we had the enemy on the ropes.
Any truth to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqYGHZCJwk
5 min vid by Bruce Herschenson explaining what happened and the role of the 94th Congress (’Rats) in the betrayal of the peace agreement/Paris Accords and the South Vietnamese people...
Read “Hue 1968” and one will have a very good handle on the Tet Offensive and the main target. God bless Major Thompson from Corinth, Mississippi.
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