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Quote by: StrongHeartsWin  Without properly identifying and defining the enemy, the Green Zone is surely as vulnerable to a Saigonesque raid or Beiruit Marine Barracks bombing, both of which were an embarrassing punch in the nose to the U.S. -- so much that we could not recover from them because our citizens lost faith in the credibility of the administration to turn their plan into victory, or at least one they were willing to accept for a certain amount of time and bodies that required investing in. |
If I read Night correctly, he's disputing the "Tet Offensive" analogy based on the numbers of Viet Cong and Vietnamese troops involved. It was a highly coordinated and massive attack. The Iraqi insurgents have neither the central command nor the numbers to replicate such an event, at least not yet. When you think about it, the smaller numbers and factionalism of Iraqi insurgents makes their success against the world's mightest military that much more impressive. All they need is a stalemate. We need a "win."