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In a NY Times Op-ed, Friedman compared the upsurge of Iraq resistance during the holy month of Ramadan to the Tet offensive of 1968 that eventually lead to shift in the US public opinion about the war. This month alone, over 70 US soldiers have died, making it one of the worst thus far.

President Bush acknowledged Friedman’s comparison saying he could be right!

 

 

Read an excerpt of the NYT Op-ed:

I’d suggest that in time we’ll come to see the events unfolding — or rather, unraveling — in Iraq today as the real October surprise, because what we’re seeing there seems like the jihadist equivalent of the Tet offensive.

For those of you too young to remember, the Tet offensive was the series of attacks undertaken by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese armies between Jan. 30, 1968 — the start of the Lunar New Year — and June 1969. Although the Vietcong and Hanoi were badly mauled during Tet, they delivered, through the media, such a psychological blow to U.S. hopes of ”winning” in Vietnam that Tet is widely credited with eroding support for President Johnson and driving him to withdraw as a candidate for re-election….

While there may be no single hand coordinating the upsurge in violence in Iraq, enough people seem to be deliberately stoking the fires there before our election that the parallel with Tet is not inappropriate. The jihadists want to sow so much havoc that Bush supporters will be defeated in the midterms and the president will face a revolt from his own party, as well as from Democrats, if he does not begin a pullout from Iraq.

Iraq will play a major role in the outcome of the November mid-term elections, one way or the other, we will know for sure if the “War on Terror� is still a valid propaganda tool for the republicans.