[RinaseaofDs]

Actually, you have it backwards.

The interviewed ex-Generals of the VC army and did a 'post-mortem'.

The thing that kept them going was the realization that our own press was going to put so much pressure on our politicians that we'd lose the resolve to see it through.

On that basis alone they launched Tet. On the battlefield, the losses were so huge that had we done two things:

1. Allowed Westmorland to continue to press on enemy positions
2. Gone into Laos to cut off the Ho Chi Minh supply route.

There would never been a North Vietnam, etc.

The libs are at it again. The don't, and will never, understand that the cost of freedom is the blood of rough men willing to sacrifice themselves for people like you.

At the end of the war, even Chamberlain realized his mistake.

Get a big whiff right now, because this WW is a LONG way from over.

[Alberta's Child]

The interviewed ex-Generals of the VC army and did a 'post-mortem' . . . The thing that kept them going was the realization that our own press was going to put so much pressure on our politicians that we'd lose the resolve to see it through.

That's an excellent point, but it was only part of the "post-mortem" you described.

What they also found out was that the ex-generals of the VC army had also planned to wage a war against the U.S. that would last as long as 35 years. There was no way in hell this country was going to maintain a war footing for that long -- especially under our silly, delusional idea that could support the massive domestic expenditures for Johnson's "Great Society" programs at the same time we were fighting a war in Vietnam.