The Iraqi Tet Offensive

By Kleinheider Posted on June 1, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Major Bob Krumm, blogging from Iraq, comments on what some are call Iraq’s Tet:

In the southern port city of Basrah, the Iraqi government launched attacks in March against a thuggish mafia that controlled the city.  Immediately some in the press announced that this was Iraq’s Tet–meaning that years into the war, the battle showed that the fledgling government and its American supporters were powerless to stop the insurgency.  This time it was Tet as it really happened, not as it was portrayed.  The insurgency quickly culminated.  The extremist Shia militias destroyed themselves trying to attack the Iraqi government.  And unlike what happened during the original 1968 version of Tet, the real story made it into the media.  Basrah was a magnificent victory for an Iraqi government and its Army that few outside of Iraq had before afforded respect.

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