Larry, We should sit down and have coffee and... I did not mean to belittle the fight that the vietcong waged, in my post...I would say that there is at least a theory, that the Tet offensive was a strategic change in plans from the vietcong to signal a willingness to seek some compromise to fighting the whole thing out to a victory...but that is not really what this thread is about. My point is simply, US corporate control was what the war was about. The same corporations are selling fried chicken in china, and are manufacturing shoes in vietnam. It is an irony, that to be "niked" in vietnam means to be hit with a shoe for not working hard enough. I am pretty sure that that is not what most people believed "we" were fighting for.