How Can Senator McCain Be So Utterly Daft?

This Yahoo News Story quotes Senator John McCain (RINO-AZ) as "fearing a Tet-style offensive " in Iraq. I can't believe a Vietnam veteran would be so utterly clueless about a major reason we lost Vietnam and he suffered the torture he did in the first place...namely the negative, adverse, anti-American coverage from the borderline treasonous mainstream media of his day, led by Walter Cronkite. We weren't losing the Vietnam war on the battlefield...aside from the media coverage, we lost that war due to loss of political will. While Senator McCain at least isn't advocating withdrawal and abandonment, he shouldn't be so ignorant of history. The original Tet Offensive from Vietnam, while it did cause the loss of some American troops, it inflicted disastrous levels of battlefield casualties on the enemy. Frankly, we should pray that so many insurgents/terrorists in Iraq mass themselves for attack and present themselves for slaughter in one place at one time...but I doubt, in spite of Sen. McCain's ignorance that we will be so lucky.

"By the way, a lot of us are also very concerned about the possibility of a, quote, 'Tet Offensive.' You know, some large-scale tact that could then switch American public opinion the way that the Tet Offensive did," the Arizona senator said. ...

Tet, a massive invasion in 1968 of South Vietnam by Communist North Vietnamese, inflicted enormous losses on U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and is regarded as a point where public sentiment turned sharply against the war." (NOTE: Even today, the MSM refuses to acknowledge what a major military disaster Tet was for the Communist North Vietnamese regime...old bias dies hard.)