Keyser Soze / Doug and Terrance

[Jasper Fidget]

Those opium plantations are one of Bin Laden's alternative sources of income
(and most likely his primary one now).  Heroin exports from Afghanistan have
spiked since the attacks, as their owners prepare for the potential war.
This makes those fields legitimate targets.  Strange that they should be
there at all, after the great show the Taliban made of destroying and
banning them all prior to this conflict (guess there are some things
Uber-Islam can ignore).  If their destruction will coincidentally siphon off
some of our collective rage, then so much the better.

I could address your other comments, but I've decided to direct that roiling
indignation in my chest elsewhere.  As I think I've remarked before, it's
far easier to anger people than convince them.  I think you and Doug et al
are fools, and while I'd love to see you change your minds, if Sept 11 was
insufficient to do so, then I'd rather not witness the terrible proportions
of the slaughter that would be required for it.

Jasper Fidget

----- Original Message -----
From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Keyser Soze / Doug and Terrance


You know, Terrance, I think I agree with you. So far, things have been
pretty quiet.  It makes me hopeful America isn't gonna be as rash and
vengeful as I feared.  Then again, I heard today (gosh, maybe even here)
that Bush was toying with the idea of bombing an opium-producing plant in
Afghanistan because he/They sensed the American people (heck, maybe the
people of the world) needed a little entertainment. You know, give the
people a little something to wet their appetites for War. I suppose it's the
modern-day equivalent to an ancient Roman lion match or a dwarf gang rape (I
understand those were big shows back in the day). Yeah, boy, I bet we make
them Romans look like a bunch of pussies now, ay!?  Heh, heh, heh..

Bush's idea really got me down, though (even though I do my best to keep a
sense of humor).  But knowing he was doing it for our little benefits, well,
that got me even more down. You raise an excellent point, though, Terrance.
What have we Americans done to anybody that hasn't been done already?  It's
all been done before, somewhere in time and space. I'm convinced of that.
What of it, though?  I'm reading into your posts (and many others like you
out in the world), and I think you're trying to cling to that *fact* as
justification to continue on your blood-thirsty way. Eye for an Eye. Tit for
a Tat. But we all know, Terrance, from way way back in kindergarten, Two
Wrongs Don't Make a Right.   Maybe all of those questions  you're asking are
distracting you from the more simple truths of Life. They certainly do make
my head spin.