Eye on Iraq: Worse than Tet
Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst
President Bush is changing course on Iraq just as President Johnson did on Vietnam after the 1968 Tet offensive. But the situation facing U.S. policymakers now in Iraq is vastly worse than anything their predecessors faced after Tet. As we noted in our previous UPI Eye on Iraq column, the Tet offensive was in military terms a catastrophic defeat for the Viet Cong from which they never recovered as an effective fighting force. It was an overwhelming victory for the U.S. Army and for the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam. It was the political and strategic impact of Tet on American public opinion, key American media figures like CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite and on President Johnson and his policymakers that proved lasting...
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President Bush is changing course on Iraq just as President Johnson did on Vietnam after the 1968 Tet offensive. But the situation facing U.S. policymakers now in Iraq is vastly worse than anything their predecessors faced after Tet. As we noted in our previous UPI Eye on Iraq column, the Tet offensive was in military terms a catastrophic defeat for the Viet Cong from which they never recovered as an effective fighting force. It was an overwhelming victory for the U.S. Army and for the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam. It was the political and strategic impact of Tet on American public opinion, key American media figures like CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite and on President Johnson and his policymakers that proved lasting...
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