BBwarrior,
that's because it WAS a defeat for US policy. to the vietnamese, military victory and defeat was always secondary to political effect.
and the US had opened itself up to political defeat because of the tendency of the US military at the time, from commander in chief on down, to portray everything in vietnam as going swimmingly well.
Yep, Tet was a massive defeat for the North and Viet Cong. Too bad the liberal media and academics (university history professors) usually turn Tet upside down and portray it as a defeat for US policy in Vietnam.
and the US had opened itself up to political defeat because of the tendency of the US military at the time, from commander in chief on down, to portray everything in vietnam as going swimmingly well.
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