the post-911 Situation, Vietnam & Pynchon

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
 
 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 it is and has been at war with, Islam.
That is, 
 fundamentalism and the bomb.

I watched a very interesting program on the Tube about a man who has
been lobbying washington for a Kurdish state and educating the congress
about his people and how and why they are being massacred by the Turks
with USA support. There are dozens of these regions in the world. I
doubt that it's only a coincidence that Wicks Cherrycoke complains about
global trade or that Le Spark is an arms dealer. 

But does the fact that Wicks is an anti-globalist and that Le Spark is a
merchant of purposeful explosion tell us anything really?