The "right" to wage war

[Otto]

Toby G Levy
>We were
> wrong to send our citizens to be slaughtered in Korea.  We were wrong to
> send our citizens to be slaughtered in Vietnam.  And I was one of those
> citizens who was drafted and sent over to Vietnam!
>

Does this mean that it hasn't been wrong to kill Koreans, Chinese and
Vietnamese. This is the same self-centered, egocentric view some critics see
in the US over and over, no matter of left or right.

> And now I have a question to Quail and the others who feel harassed by
> those of us who have studied Pynchon over the years and found him to have
> a clear leftist, pacifist message in his writing:
>
> Is there ANY way of our expressing an opinion without offending you,
> David Morris, Paul Mackin, etc?
>
> Toby
>

Of course it is if it's expressed kind of reasonable like yours above.

But first of all, "leftist" doesn't necessarily mean "pacifist" at the same
time, and secondly I don't see the clear decision to choose one specific
political side in P's work. I see clear sympathy for every preterite under
every social or political system instead and a rejection of any extremist
position. That's why it's so sympathetically postmodern.

A nice weekend to all of you.
Let's get back to MDDM and give Robert some answers.

Otto