Split Thread BBC news reporting

[Emily's Cat]

It's not getting on my while horse. There was an insinuation in your post that was stupidly ridiculous. Followed by a clear rejection that you didn't seem to understand. Which itself is doubling down on the previous stupidity.

In complete seriousness, I don't know how you got to this inference.

What insinuation do you think I made, and in which post? What rejection do you think was clear (I won't disagree that I didn't understand it). What previous stupidity did I double down on?

 

[catsmate]

. Cronkite famously got the Tet Offensive completely wrong.

No he didn't. He pointed out that the government's optimistic claims were rubbish and that the war was stuck in a bloody deadlock.
He was right.

 

[Ziggurat]

No he didn't. He pointed out that the government's optimistic claims were rubbish and that the war was stuck in a bloody deadlock.

You got it wrong too. The Tet Offensive was a failure, and it broke the insurgency. South Vietnam later fell to a conventional invasion from the North after we abandoned them, but the insurgency within South Vietnam largely ended after the Tet Offensive.

 

[jimbob]

You got it wrong too. The Tet Offensive was a failure, and it broke the insurgency. South Vietnam later fell to a conventional invasion from the North after we abandoned them, but the insurgency within South Vietnam largely ended after the Tet Offensive.

My understanding is that it was a tactical failure but a strategic (political) victory.

 

[Ziggurat]

My understanding is that it was a tactical failure but a strategic (political) victory.

Why was it a political victory? In part because Cronkite (and others) helped make it one, by portraying it as a tactical victory.