Letter to the Editor

Repeating history

Monday, January 9, 2006

Dear Editor,

We are, indeed, repeating history.

During the 1968 Tet Offensive, Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam War to be lost. The U.S. mass media kicked off an orgy of defeatism. The national will to continue the war was lost, and, seven years later, so was the war itself.

Curiously, the Tet Offensive was an unprecedented military DISASTER for the North Vietnamese. They did not accomplish a single military objective. They were defeated in depth in every instance. The Viet Cong were consumed by this single campaign, forcing the NVA to take over, and putting the lie to the popular fiction that the entire endeavor was ever a "civil war." North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap was even demoted for this FAILURE.

At this point, the North had essentially lost the war. They might have surrendered at that time, were it not for the encouragement provided by the likes of Walter Cronkite, Jane Fonda and John Kerry. It's been said that General Giap even stated in his memoirs that the words and actions of the leftist fifth column in America encouraged him to continue onward. "Aid and comfort", anyone?

Even as American soldiers were winning all the battles, unscrupulous journalists, spineless politicians, and assorted other leftist tools sold them out, with the ultimate result being a political defeat (despite an uninterrupted string of military victories).

Given the opportunity, the current crop of unscrupulous journalists, spineless politicians and other assorted leftist tools will ensure that THIS war is lost, as well.

I wonder if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will credit them in HIS memoirs.

Owen J. McPhillips

McCook

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