The build up of enemy forces was noted but not entirely acted upon until the offensive began. Our reaction was swift and deadly. All Viet Cong forces were eliminated and never again was a serious threat. NVA forces were stunned and sent back to safe areas in Cambodia and the north.
Who won the battle of Tet? Unquestionably a decisive military victory for the US. But the media manipulated (at the hands communists in the media, including Uncle Walter) and beat the citizens of this nation to death nightly with photos of dead and crying women and children and Dan Rather’s flat out lies about the war.
The only thing that kept this from being Tet all over again has been the real story coming out in the alternative media.
The enemies of freedom no longer have a strangle hold on the our information. We have freed the truth.
The enemies of freedom no longer have a strangle hold on the our information. We have freed the truth.
There's an old -- from 2004 -- but very good article by Barry Farber called "Anti-American Media are Perverse Propagandists" in which he says:
Mark Twain said a lot of things wittier and funnier. But he never said anything more valuable than this: A man who can read - but does not, has no advantage over a man who cannot read.He’d probably also agree that a nation free to tell itself the truth -but does not, has no advantage over a dictatorship. Media coverage of Iraq these days makes me fear we have become that nation.
The entire article is linked from my blog if you hit the link above -- it's worth a read. The media is indeed the enemy.