Obama faces his own Tet Offensive, what we you face
In the early morning of January 31, 1968, nearly 100,000 troops of the North Vietnam regular army along with National Liberation Front guerillas viciously attacked U.S. forces across the Vietnam peninsula in a well-planned action.
The Wall Street Journal later published an interview with Bui Tin, a member of the General staff of the North Vietnam Army who helped plan the Tet Offensive and also received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam in 1975. In this interview he discussed the important role the American anti-war movement played in the Hanoi victory. He said, “The American anti-war movement was essential to our strategy” and indicated that the North Vietnamese leaders and war planners listened to the American nightly news to gain confidence that they would win. This is how they knew America had lost their will to win and had become weak in resolve – they knew America had already been beaten.
There is an uncanny similarity between the Tet Offensive of 1968 and the events that have taken place throughout the middle east and the globe by Al-Quada / Taliban aligned and non-aligned movements over the past week.
The United States, along with the United Nations, over the past three and a half years, has shown itself to again be weak, a nation of appeasement, and a nation without direction or resolve – a true Paper Tiger.
We have sought to appease our enemies and have turned our back on our allies. We have embraced politicos and politics of Europe, like France’s socialism and South American dictators, while turning our back on democracy. We use old and failed means in an attempt to punish our enemies. Our president has a lot of similarities to Lyndon B. Johnson in this regard – another failed president.
Today, as during the Vietnam war, we have again lost our way as a nation, our leaders in Washington do nothing but bicker; they are indecisive, show signs of weakness to our enemies both foreign and domestic, and we have our own Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House – his name is Barack Obama.
So the question we all need to be asking ourselves is “Do I feel safer today than I did four years ago?”