The risk of a ‘Tet’ in Iraq?
(EXCERPT) Could public support survive a major setback?
U.S. military police, dead colleagues at their side, take cover at the
entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon on the first day of the Tet
Offensive, Jan. 31, 1968.
ANALYSIS, By Michael Moran MSNBC
Oct. 2 — Somewhere in Iraq right now, right this very moment, a scheme
to deliver a knockout blow to the American-led force occupying the
country is almost certainly being planned. Like all such plans devised
by guerrillas fighting a vastly superior force, this one aims to make
up for what the Iraqi resistance lacks in firepower...
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