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In Vietnam the North Vietnamese along with the Viet Kong launched a TET offensive to achieve military goals -- nearly all of which were not realized. Strategically on the ground, TET was a failure for the NVA and the Viet Kong. However, it was the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon that sent shock waves through the American public. Seeing the enemy running amok in an area always said to be secured just cemented the growing feeling that the war was not winnable and that emboldened louder voices in the anti war effort.

Will the Iraqi insurgents use the TET offensive in Saigon as a blue print for a political strategy targeted at the U.S. public? If I were them, I would. Already the war is quite unpopular, but if insurgents could breech the surrounding perimeter of the Green Zone and get a few dozen running amok within it, with news cameras from all over the world filming it, it would be the death gnell for U.S. involvment in Iraq.

Do you think it is possible and do you think a serious effort will be launched by the insurgents to do so? What do you think the rammifications would be? Would they be immediate, or would they be gradual?