A war we lost?

It's commonly accepted that the United States "lost" the Vietnam War. In fact, to suggest otherwise is to invite scorn, ridicule and anger. However, a writer in the Wall Street Journal has done just that, pointing out that from a military standpoint, the Amerian forces had decisively defeated the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in ever single military encounter, including the Tet Offensive, which was widely reported by the media as being an ignominious U.S. defeat: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120226056767646059.html.

I have long wondered about the reporting on the Vietnam War, which was perhaps the first "television war" in world history. The public perception of it was shaped by a media which was against the war and the soldiers who were fighting it (hmmm, doesn't this sound familiar?). Unfortunately, it set a pattern which is still followed today.............