better version of Playboy Japan interview with TRP

[MalignD at aol.com]

I have no opinion either way on the authenticity of the article/interview.  

I don't see, however, why there's such defensiveness around Rob's skepticism 
over its authenticity.  I don't think he's doubting that the article exists; 
as David Monroe said, the Millison has apparently seen the article and 
translations.

Still, a famously private person rather uncharacteristically emerges to the 
purpose of making offhand and embarrassing remarks to a Japanese version of a 
laughably outdated men's magazine?  I think there's room for skepticism.  

Anyone here remember Clifford Irving?

As for this bit of trenchant analysis (and assuming they're Pynchon's):

"America always looks for an enemy. ...  It has labeled Bin Laden as the bad 
guy who commanded the terrorist attacks from behind the scenes, only because 
we couldn't feel O.K. unless we made him. But I think Bin Laden is just 
somebody's rodeo clown."

Who does "The Master" suppose the bad guy is if not bin Laden?  

And after the destruction of the Trade Center, he thinks America needs to go 
look for an enemy?

And if by some remote chance bin Laden isn't the "bad guy," and just some 
"rodeo clown," well again:  somebody destroyed the Trade Center.  That would 
seem to have little to do with America's "need" for a bad guy, and the 
somewhat offensive implication (in the face of the thousands dead) that bin 
Laden or whomoever "The Master" suspects is behind him, is America's neurotic 
creation.