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Commentary: Remember Tet offensive.
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July 31, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Jul 31, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
"Remember the Tet Offensive" is the mantra I have been repeating to myself in recent days as gloomy media accounts of the deepening U.S quagmire in Iraq crowded the airwaves and news pages. For the benefit of those who remember Tet only fitfully or not at all, it was the 1968 uprising by the communist Vietcong across Vietnam that brought guerrilla warfare to the gates of the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. It was a dramatic escalation of the war, but it was also a severe defeat for the Vietcong that ...
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