Don’t Forget
I was reading through the new Victory Caucus site, I came across a blogger and post that I’d not seen before - Cannoneerno4.
He reminds us, with links, of the military defeat but propaganda victory of the Viet Nam Tet offensive. That propaganda victory was abetted by the US press, who were quite comfortable taking in all the enemy propaganda that they could find.
Tet Comes Early This Year « Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group
I was a cadet when Saigon fell. The psychological wounds of the men who trained me were to a certain degree contagious.
It’s happening again. Will it work again? We see it coming this time. We have blogs and talk radio and Fox News this time. Will we be able to stop the stab in the back this time? Can we do for the veterans of this war what we failed to do for the veterans of that war? Can we spare the veterans of this war the anguish of knowing that the people and society for whom they bled, sweated, cried, killed, and watched friends die, were not worth the sacrifices made for them?
Source: Tet Comes Early This Year « Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group
