fullspinzoo wrote:
So, you think Cronkite was bad in a sense b/c he emboldened the enemy into thinking we didn't have the confidence we could win. WCronk was fighting or spreading propaganda depending how you look at it. Didn't like McCarthy, right? In other words, if you commit
you're all in. No room publicly for anything but 100% commitment. WCrokite maybe made the enemy fight harder and stronger. Anyone who lost friends or siblings may be pissed. Excellent point on your part.
The Tet Offensive was a last ditch effort by the kommies to demoralize the American forces. They attacked on Christmas Eve and gave it all they had. We were taken by surprise more than being overwhelmed. However, the embeds didn't take it that way and reported a defeat that was more like a all out effort to deplete weaponry in a single attack by the North Vietnamese and allies.
That turned America against the war, which could have been won.