Veitnam and teh TET offensive

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

In all of this I believe we woefully underestimated the grit of Vietnamese people to rid themselves of foreign occupiers.

We looked and saw a thin, small guy in sandals and straw hat and said this
should be easy.

The mistake we made was trying to be like the French under Napoleon, who tried to export the French Revolution across Europe. We were trying to bring the New Deal and Sears to a country that wanted to rid itself of all foreign colonial powers. Ho Chi Minh was Communist but more importantly a nationalist.

I am sure the Vietminh under Ho killed many thousands of Vietnamese political opponents. But so did we.