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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Tet Offensive Revisited clipped by: katsteevns Clip Source: www.consortiumnews.com Tet Plus 40: US-Vietnam Turning Point By Don North January 30, 2008 (A Special Report) Editor?s Note: On Jan. 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong attacked the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and more than 100 other targets throughout South Vietnam. The assault was dubbed the Tet Offensive, named after the Vietnamese celebration of the Lunar New Year. When the bloody fighting finally ended 24 days later, the communist troops had been driven from all major South Vietnamese cities and senior U.S. military officers declared victory. But there was little doubt, too, that the North Vietnamese and Vietcong had scored a stunning psychological success. Because U.S. politicians and commanders had oversold progress in the war as a way to quiet domestic dissent, the savage Tet fighting shocked millions of Americans and widened Washington?s ?credibility gap? on Vietnam. zum Artikel... Anzeige Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de