pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252

[Doug Millison]

Thanks, Paul, for providing such a good example of how, with advancing age,
people can grow so certain that their convictions -- yours, apparently,
that this war is inevitable and right and that its critics are inevitably
wrong -- are beyond question.  Thankfully, I have the opportunity to spend
a lot of my time with several seniors who remain open to new ideas and who
welcome discussion and debate of the issues of the day, including this war.
Some of them disagree with anti-war views, but, unlike you, they don't
dismiss out of hand the arguments and information presented by the war's
critics, nor do they work so hard to discredit the war's critics through ad
hominem attack without engaging any of the points offered for discussion,
as you have consistently done here.  Instead, they take the time to read
and think about the spectrum of views regarding the war, before accepting
or rejecting them.

And, thank goodness for online journalism, which is in fact one of the only
links to information and opinions about the way that have in fact been
systematically excluded from the corporate media in the U.S.  Ridicule the
messenger if you will, but you can't prevent the message from getting
through.