"The Wall Street Journal published an interview with Bui Tin who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. During the interview Mr. Tin was asked if the American antiwar movement was important to Hanoi's victory. Mr. Tin responded "It was essential to our strategy", referring to the war being fought on two fronts, the Vietnam battlefield and back home in America through the antiwar movement on college campuses and in the city streets. He further stated the North Vietnamese leadership listened to the American evening news broadcasts "to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement." Visits to Hanoi made by persons such as Jane Fonda, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and various church ministers "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses." Mr. Tin surmised, "America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win." Mr. Tin further advised that General Vo Nguyen Giap (Commanding General of the North Vietnam Army) had advised him the 1968 Tet Offensive had been a defeat."
Does nybody here think that the jihadists are ignorant of history?
Some of those 20 wounded Marines in Ramadi are "critical" says Bret on FOX News, for those who are cubicle bound. Number of KIA might rise.
It's very frustrating that we don't even know for sure who attacked us in "wave after wave of attacks" in Ramadi.
Mort Kondracke on FOX says "expert" told him that Army handover to Marines in Ramadi and "kindler, gentler" attitude might have encouraged the perps to attack us. Hard to believe.