Reflecting on A Key Vietnam Battle After 50 Years

Guest: Mark Bowden, National Correspondent, "The Atlantic," Senior Writer, Vanity Fair, Author, “Black Hawk Down,” “Hue 1968” This week marks 50 years since the start of the Tet Offensive, when the North Vietnamese launched a surprise attack on the city of Hue and a number of other sites. America and its South Vietnamese allies were caught flat-footed. It would take two weeks for them to regain control of Hue: two weeks of intense combat, street by narrow street. The attack happened on Tet – the Vietnamese New Year – and, as Mark Bowden writes in his book “Hue 1968,” “after Tet, the debate was never again about how to win in Vietnam, but how to leave.”