They won the war in the American media.
That is the real lesson of Vietnam, and it is a lesson the American people have failed to learn: the press is the enemy.
the press is not the Ameerican people's friend - it is America's sworn enemy.
Yep. The democrats ran on nothing in Nov. The liberal press kept up a constant drumbeat of war 24/7. The press won the election for them.
Did you notice the news an hour after the democrats took the house and senate? You'd never even know there was a war. Roses were popping up around the world. Birds were singing. Children were laughing.
He who controls communication controls the word. Reality can be created.
Yes, that is the major similarity with Vietnam today -- the enemy within. My favorite article on this topic really hits home after this weekend's protests (excerpt):
An Open Letter to the "Anti-War" Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring The War Home By David Horowitz September 27, 2001
I am a former antiwar activist who helped to organize the first campus demonstration against the war in Vietnam at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. I appeal to all those young people who participated in "antiwar" demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to join an "antiwar" effort against America’s coming battle with international terrorism.
The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them.
The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the antiwar activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists....
...If I have one regret from my radical years, it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason of its enemies within. If patriotic Americans had been more vigilant in the defense of their country, if they had called things by their right names, if they had confronted us with the seriousness of our attacks, they might have caught the attention of those of us who were wellmeaning but utterly misguided. And they might have stopped us in our tracks.
This appeal is for those of you who are out there today attacking your country, full of your own selfrighteousness, but who one day might also live to regret what you have done.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1249
Should be required reading. I have been to a few protests in my area and there are always more of them than us. I hope more of us will heed Horowitz's words and get involved.