40th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive
Here’s some things you might not know:
In case you missed it today is the 40th anniversary of the Tet offensive. You know the one where we defeated the VC/NVA forces in Vietnam, and then had LBJ, McNamara and that fuck wit traitor Cronkite turn the hole thing into a defeat…Didn’t know that eh?
“…Americans grew discouraged with Johnson because his administration was not trying to win. Defense Secretary McNamara was pursuing an esoteric limited-war strategy intended to bring about a negotiated settlement that enshrined the status quo. But Americans understand war as a “win or lose” proposition, preferably “win.” We had not sacrificed over 16,000 Americans by the beginning of 1968 to achieve a draw. And a hard-line Leninist like Ho Chi Minh viewed negotiations as simply a good time to reload.”
“But disapproval of Johnson’s handling of the war did not mean opposition to the war effort per se. At the low point of LBJ’s public support, only 32 percent of the American people wanted to withdraw from South Vietnam; 50 percent wanted to escalate, to seek not a tie but a win. “
Remind you of anything?
“Most Americans wanted Johnson to be tougher. This was true even among the youth. According to Gallup, in May 1967 Hawks outnumbered Doves on college campuses 49 percent to 35 percent. But wait, wasn’t 1967 the Summer of Love, Flower Power, Abby Hoffman, and the Yippies trying to levitate the Pentagon? Yes, but that stuff played better in the media than the kinds of things the young Hawks were into. You don’t win any prizes for photos of kids studying and getting haircuts… “
The plain fact of the matter is, We were winning militarily at the time of Tet. Where we were losing the war was on the political front. But for the criminal incompetence of LBJ and and his imbecilic defense secretary Robert McNamara the outcome of Vietnam could have been very different. Americans, contrary to what the left thinks do not want to lose a war, we did not want it 40 year ago, we don’t want it now.
Sadly now as then the Democrats and the left do…
