Originally Posted by Chas H

I dunno what if we had won, or even if we could win. I thought the issue in Viet Nam was a civil war. Outside the cities, in my observations, people were far more concerned about feeding their families than who ran the g'ment. On the other hand, if the communists had a brain cell or 2, they would have realized Viet Nam could be a vacation paradise. But dogma, and later land mines, got in the way-again.
My comment was directed to Cronkite's mis-characterization of the Tet offensive. The Tet offensive was a disaster for the Viet Cong.