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Today is the Chinese New Year, which means it's also the Vietnamese New Year, aka Tet, and thus the lunar anniversary of the beginning of the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive, you'll recall, was the "turning point" of the Vietnam War, when everyone, starting with Walter Cronkite, decided we were losing -- even though, historians unanimously agree, it was the Communists who actually suffered a military defeat, as they met none of their tactical goals and the Viet Cong were decimated.

Keep that in mind as Chuck Schumer vows to pursue a political strategy "just like in the days of Vietnam."

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