Reply #6: Hume must believe US policy has been a failure

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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that Hume brought up the Tet Offensive. For years, the rightwing windbags have been insisting that Iraq is nothing like Vietnam. For Hume to even bring up Tet shows he's losing faith in his own fairy tales. Frankly, I expect more from the managing editor of Fox News

But since he's brought it up, let's talk a little bit about the Tet Offensive. In the years following the massive US escalation which began in 1965 the Johnson Administration and the US military issued repeated claims about progress being made, the enemy losing his will to fight, the war being won. The Vietnamese insurgency's ability to stockpile the logistical wherewithall and launch a nationwide coordinated surprise offensive demonstrated that those predictions of success were wildly optimistic and largely untrue. American public faith in a military victory began to erode and the country began to look for a way out of the war.

American publc opinion about Iraq is already in the post-Tet phase. Only a handful beleve that the Administration's claims about progress being made are anything but tired, recycled lies. Victory? Who can even say what "winning" means... and who believes that it might be achieved? No, as Mr. Hume well knows, no Tet Offensive is needed to break the will of the American people to continue this war. That will has already been broken by four years of lies, of endless claims of progress totally divorced from reality, and of the steady stream of wounded and dead.

So all I can conclude is that Mr. Hume believes that the Iraqi insurgents do have the capability of launching a widespread military offensive that would threaten the very existence of our military forces there. And to believe that he must have even less faith in the past four years of our military and political progress than do I.