PRIDE OF U.S. POWER - WHERE IS IT? - Gene H Hogberg - February 1968

Gene H Hogberg

A well-executed Communist twin offensive has spectacularly shattered the pride of American military power in Asia. First North Koreans hijacked U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo on the high seas. Then the Viet Cong launched a series of stunning, ferocious attacks throughout South Vietnam that caught Allied forces by surprise. Even more surprising still, has been the reaction by officials to these grave events. What we have warned for years, has happened. U.S. fortunes have taken a sudden turn for the worse in Asia. The nation has won its last war. The American public had been told over the past several months that the war in Vietnam was clearly turning in U.S. favor. In November, Gen. William Westmoreland, U.S. Commander in Vietnam, expressed the personal belief that American servicemen could even be gradually phased out of an increasingly pacified Vietnam in about two years. Then, suddenly, in the space of one week, everything went wrong. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library