Yes, I know this is an old article, but the Left is using the same old tricks they used in Vietnam, and the more we point it out, the better.
I don't think it is really accurate to say the home front collapsed after Tet. It may have among media elitists, but it didn't among what Nixon called the silent majority. A couple of facts bear this out. First, after Tet, we continued to fight in Vietnam for another 5 years. And second, when an election was held on McGovern's 'Peace at Any Price Policy' towards Vietnam, McGovern suffered one of the worst presidential electoral defeats in American history. That is hardly the stuff of a home front collapse.
What actually led to the collapse in support for the South Vietnamese was Watergate. But for Watergate, there probably would still be a South Vietnam
And the media never bothers to think about the thousands slaughtered after they handed vistory to the north
There are rumors that Al-Queda is planning a Tet-like operation around Ramadan in Iraq.
That's in September. We'll see how this plays out.
And they received a big hand from John Kerry, and I have researched this in the FBI files concerning John Kerry and the VVAW, to read more go to my about me page here on FR.
>>The unraveling, with Congress pulling the string, was so rapid that even Giap was caught by surprise. As he recounts in his memoirs, Hanoi had to improvise a general offensive -- and then rolled into Saigon two years before they had reckoned it might become possible.
It's worth noting that they did it with a fresh influx of Soviet tanks and other armaments, in a conventional armored campaign, at a time when the Dems in Congress pretty much totally repudiated our promises to the RVN government for material assistance.