GRGR(9) - Katje's Closet

[Doug Millison]

At 1:18 PM -0700 9/14/99, Richard Romeo wrote:
>>>ok, I won't bring up the Tet Offensive.
and
>if Katje is described as all corruption and ashes, well we know where the
>carbon came from then, don't we? ashes of course, leads us to the holy-cost
>and the jewish families she sold out. You know, Mr Pynchon, everything _is_
>related.

Ashes littered the post-Tet landscape, too. Wasn't the Tet Offensive, in
addition to being a catastrophe and tragedy for all the combatants and
innocent civilians directly involved, evidence of a big miscalculation on
the part of U.S. Intelligence about the capabilities of the North
Vietnamese and Vietcong?  A wake-up call that might have alerted our
fearless leaders that we wouldn't be able to win the war? (And so might as
well stop then and spare the next few years of misery and suffering.) Or am
I all mixed up from sniffing mothballs and don't have my Vietnam War
history straight.

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