the post-911 Situation, Vietnam & Pynchon

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Are they really?  The U.S. fought in Vietnam in part to "contain" Communism
> within a broader strategy of seeking to eliminate or contain Communism; the
> U.S. fights in Afghanistan for similar reasons, substitute "terrorism" for
> "Communism".  

Substitute terrorism for communism? 

This substitution, it seems to me,  buys into the propaganda on both the
extreme Left and the extreme Right. The extreme Right's propaganda is
more dangerous because it  is once again making policy while the extreme
Left is making silly substitutions. 
If anything, the Extreme Right's  propaganda has managed to substitute a
"war" on "terrorism" for what is as has been at war with, Islam. That is
fundamentalism and the bomb.