[pepsionice]

I’m not a gloom and doom fellow...but the title kinda fits...it is half-won/half-lost, and in five years...we will likely say the same thing. The general public in Afghanistan may be pro-US, but I just don’t see the end to this episode.

[Philo-Junius]

One more time, for the record:

Tet was a colossal disaster for the Viet Cong and the NVA, betrayed only by Westmoreland’s self-promotion beforehand and media sedition afterwards.

We should be so lucky as to engage the Iraqi insurgents in a repeat of Tet.

[oneolcop]

FYI some heavy fighting is still going on in Sadr City. The area is in the North of Baghdad. Our guys are getting killed there daily.

[ThanhPhero]

For all the talk of a recent Tet-like offensive in Basra, the Mahdi Army of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr suffered an ignominious setback

It was Tet-like in that Communists were pretty mucy destroyed in Tet-68 just as the Mahdists are losing it this time around. It was not Tet-like in that it was localized to a city and part of a city in Iraq. Whether the proffered analogy holds depends on whether we now pull back and pull the Iraqi army back so as to allow the bad guys to get some R&R and time and space to rebuiled as we so magnanimously did for the Communists in Viet Nam.