Perhaps, just perhaps, someone will finally investigate the tragic misreporting by Walter Cronkite with regard to the 1968 Tet offensive.  The following article is spot on.  I was in Vietnam in 1968 and as a Vietnamese Linguist assigned to the NSA, I know that this is accurate:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/colon021715.php3

What makes this so sad is that for years Walter Cronkite was considered to be the most trusted name in news.  It is easy to be trusted, if like Brian Williams, no one ever bothers to fact check what you are reporting.  I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have met people who bragged about protesting the Vietnam War.  I have sadly met many Vietnam Veterans who also thought we were caught in a quagmire we couldn’t win.  Walter Cronkite convinced a nation of something that was simply untrue.  That lie is perpetuated to this day.  What the anti-war protestors refuse to consider is the following two questions.

Would Vietnam be better or worse off today if we had stayed the course and forced North Vietnam to honor the peace treaty

Compare South Korea to South Vietnam

What happened in South Vietnam and Cambodia after we left?

Millions of people were confined to re-education camps for years.

An estimated 3 million people were slaughtered in Cambodia.

Explain to me why this was a good result!

No one ever asks these questions.  Instead they gloat over stopping the war with the naïve notion that this was followed by peace and love.  Granted the Vietnam War was terrible.  Granted a lot of civilians died.  But the most unethical thing to do in a war is to lose it to pure evil.  There is, as Douglas McArthur once said, “no substitute for victory.”  It is bad enough that we abandoned South Vietnam under any circumstances,  To surrender on the verge of victory, because of bald-faced lies is the ultimate disgrace.

Under the leadership of the Democratic congress, the United States abandoned South Vietnam with no regard to the consequences.  They threw the sacrifices of the more than 55,000 Americans who died there on the scrap heap of history.  This decision was based on blatant falsehoods and misrepresentations. None worse than the irresponsible reporting by Walter Cronkite.

It is time someone told the awful truth.  Walter lied and a whole lot of people died.  The most trusted man in news is someone we should never have trusted at all.

TDM