feeding hungry people

[Doug Millison]

37,000 meals a day for 4 million starving people, offered by the same
country (the U.S.) that has forced neighboring countries to close their
borders to refugees and which continues a bombardment that at first stopped
altogether and continues to impede the shipment of the necessary amounts
humanitarian aid -- it's disgraceful to call this a humanitarian gesture.
Yes the corporate media have made much of this propaganda effort without
asking many probing questions about it.

I'm sure that American TV won't be showing us the pictures of the kids who
run into a minefield to get one of those food packets and get blown to bits
instead -- and nobody's TV will, if the Bush Administration continues to
have success in bullying foreign broadcasters to toe its propaganda line.

It remains astonishing to me that anybody could claim to have read and
understood and sympathize with Pynchon's worldview  and also support --
celebrate, as some drooling slobs have done on Pynchon-l -- this insane
military adventure of Bush's, and support this sort of cynical PR ploy that
puts a fig leaf on actions that amounts to starving refugees to death while
they wait  to be killed -- that's one thing, among others, that supporters
of Bush's policies are supporting.