Walter Cronkite's Ridiculous Spin on the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam

[Hector12]

Ask Poland

Poland was conquered by the Soviet Union in World War II. Vietnam was not conquered by the Soviet Union nor by Communist China. In the spring of 1969 Communist china invaded Vietnam. After several months the Vietnamese Army repelled the Chinese invasion.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

No, Ike said HE WAS TOLD that Minh would win. How often have we seen our intelligence sources be wrong about even more critical facts than the probable results of an election.

The Blind Leading Those They Blinded

The political opinions of Third World retards don't matter. Everybody here thinks LBJ was right in trying to save evolution's sore losers. But he was wrong to preach such a irrelevant motive for stopping the Communists from taking over the world. So this whole discussion is sidetracked by linking to America's self-appointed authorities.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If we cared about the Vietnamese who did not support Ho Chi Minh we should have evacuated them to the United States. I have known Vietnamese war refugees. They are good people.

Good People Would Have Fought Hard Against the Communist Thrill-Killing Bandits

 

[Hector12]

Good People Would Have Fought Hard Against the Communist Thrill-Killing Bandits

Few people in South Vietnam cared if the Communists won. That is why we lost that war.

 

[Hector12]

Trick or Treaty

France, England, and Pakistan were also part of that treaty. Whatever reason they used to not go along with it could have been used by the American regime, too. Real Americans die; Chickenhawks' Daddies sign papers.

Intelligent Americans do not kill and die for causes not worth killing and dying for.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The point is whatever way they run their country it is their choice, not some violent Colonialist scum.

The people of South Vietnam - and North - love liberty and the ability to sell products as they see fit.
Maybe you too should spend some time in the jungles of SE Asia.

 

[Deadstick]

The people of South Vietnam - and North - love liberty and the ability to sell products as they see fit.
Maybe you too should spend some time in the jungles of SE Asia.

Why would i do that you clown?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Why would i do that you clown?

So you stop being a total ignoramus.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Yep. Had family there at the time. Basically a bunch of terrorists activated at a specific time.

Zero military impact.
Huge propaganda tool for the Left.

Shitforbrains The Sage of Main Street thinks the Tet offense was of military importance.

 

[Hector12]

Shitforbrains The Sage of Main Street thinks the Tet offense was of military importance.

The Tet offensive of 1968 was of political significance. It meant that the end of the War in Vietnam was nowhere in sight. This pumped energy into the anti war movement, and contributed to the eventual Communist victory.

 

[Weatherman2020]

So you stop being a total ignoramus.

Deadstick not my fault you don’t have first hand knowledge of SE Asia and instead use Daily Kos to get your twisted views of reality.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The Tet offensive of 1968 was of political significance. It meant that the end of the War in Vietnam was nowhere in sight. This pumped energy into the anti war movement, and contributed to the eventual Communist victory.

Politically significant yes.
Because Democrats made it significant.
Go figure. Democrats siding with Communists.

 

[Hector12]

Politically significant yes.
Because Democrats made it significant.
Go figure. Democrats siding with Communists.

There was a difference between siding with the Communists and concluding that the South Vietnamese government was not worth fighting for.

 

[Weatherman2020]

There was a difference between siding with the Communists and concluding that the South Vietnamese government was not worth fighting for.

South Vietnam was a beautiful capitalistic nation.

Now after 50 years it’s coming back.

Those 2 million Vietnamese fleeing in leaky boats into pirate and shark infested waters disagree with you.

 

[Hector12]

South Vietnam was a beautiful capitalistic nation.

Now after 50 years it’s coming back.

Those 2 million Vietnamese fleeing in leaky boats into pirate and shark infested waters disagree with you.

If the boat people represented the majority of the Vietnamese, the Communist would not have won that way.

 

[Weatherman2020]

If the boat people represented the majority of the Vietnamese, the Communist would not have won that way.

Where exactly do you get your information from? Wiki?

 

[Hector12]

Where exactly do you get your information from? Wiki?

Common sense and my knowledge of the War in Vietnam. American troops and the Army of Vietnam outnumbered the Communists by about three to one. We out spent them by about ten to won. They still won, and they won big time.

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[AZrailwhale]

When American GIs fled Vietnam clinging to their helicopters it did not look like a victory parade.

Are you on drugs or something? American troops never “fled Vietnam”. US and other SEATO troops left peacefully after the PRVN signed the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnamese War with a victory by SEATO forces. The fighting was over, the VC were exterminated and the NVA was defeated on both the battlefield and economically. The Soviets totally rearmed and retrained the remains of the NVA from a light infantry/guerrilla fighting force into a modern, armor-heavy combined arms army AT NO CHARGE to the People’s Republic of Vietnam. The PRVN then started a new war and conquered the Republic of Vietnam. It was the Vietnamese clinging to those helicopters fleeing your “liberators”.

 

[Hector12]

Are you on drugs or something? American troops never “fled Vietnam”. US and other SEATO troops left peacefully after the PRVN signed the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnamese War with a victory by SEATO forces. The fighting was over, the VC were exterminated and the NVA was defeated on both the battlefield and economically. The Soviets totally rearmed and retrained the remains of the NVA from a light infantry/guerrilla fighting force into a modern, armor-heavy combined arms army AT NO CHARGE to the People’s Republic of Vietnam. The PRVN then started a new war and conquered the Republic of Vietnam. It was the Vietnamese clinging to those helicopters fleeing your “liberators”.

There still were American troops in Vietnam when the Communists won. They escaped any way they could.

When the Communists finally won, Time and Newsweek had sneering, jeering cover pictures of victorious Communist soldiers, and the words, "The Winning Side."

 

[AZrailwhale]

There still were American troops in Vietnam when the Communists won. They escaped any way they could.

The only American troops were the Marine embassy guards and they left by ships.