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...Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible waste of idealism. An older generation of men who had had their war at Normandy and Iwo Jima would grow nostalgic for the moral simplicities they had known. After the Tet offensive in 1968, Viet Nam came to seem as futile as the Western Front once had to the men in the trenches, a mere killing ground. President Richard Nixon promised to depart from Viet Nam when he had got "peace with honor." But the possibility of honor seemed to have...
Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Thousands of firecrackers popped and fizzed in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
...seen by American prisoners of war, whom they abused and tortured. Subsequent shows chronicle the attempt to "Vietnamize" the conflict by withdrawing U.S. troops, the simultaneous expansion of the war to Cambodia and Laos, North Viet Nam's public relations triumph despite the military failure of its 1968 Tet offensive, the protracted peace negotiations, and the antiwar movement...
...titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, joined in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to misrepresent enemy troop strength during the year leading up to the January 1968 Tet offensive. In July, CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter, responding to criticism, admitted that the documentary, produced by George Crile, had violated some of CBS'S journalistic ground rules, and that the claim of conspiracy was "inappropriate." But he rejected Westmoreland's demands for a full retraction, though...
...appreciate CBS for charging in its program The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception that Pentagon Hero William Westmoreland knowingly underestimated the strength of enemy forces. Prior to the 1968 Tet offensive, I could not go on a patrol without seeing numerous North Vietnamese troops. As those who were on the scene can attest, the number of encounters with skilled North Vietnamese fighting men increased greatly between mid-1966 and Tet. But what does a foot soldier know...