No light at the end of this tunnel, George.(World)

From: Catholic New Times | Date: December 14, 2003| Author: Margolis, Eric | Copyright information

Watching the recent storm of car bombs, rockets, and gunfire in central Iraq gave me nasty memories of the January, 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.

At that time, many soldiers in my U.S. Army unit were departing for Special Forces camps in Vietnam's highlands. We stood in mute horror as TV reported these very camps being overrun by North Vietnamese troops, and their garrisons killed to the last man. We immediately understood that the bloody Tet offensive was a huge politi...

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