cheerleaders

[Doug Millison]

Rich: "I doubt there's anyone here who is cheerleading (only the local
media is doing that)."

If by "here" you mean Pynchon-L, you must be filtering and not seeing
messages from "Morris", Mackin, and the others who consistently speak up to
applaud the war here on Pynchon-L.  If by "here" you mean NYC, I would
agree -- my familiy and friends in Manhattan are certainly not cheerleading
for the war and in fact much significant anti-war activity originates from
activists in Manhattan.

And, what's unclear about Pynchon's concerns with war, complicity in war
crimes, multinational corporations profiting from war, etc. ? That's
material that P comes back to in his fiction and non-fiction writing again
and again.  I'm asserting that P takes these issues seriously in his
writing -- a non-controversial statement, surely -- , and that makes them
fair game for discussion on the P-list.

-Doug