does Pynchon support the war?

[Doug Millison]

It astonishes me that anyone -- much less an obviously intelligent and
often sensitive Pynchon reader like "jbor" -- would persist  in trying to
rewrite Pynchon as a war monger.  Look no farther than GR to see how
foolish this is -- a novel that questions the WWII project (which has been
held up as the shining example of the Greatest Generation for our
generation to follow, in one of the most impressive propaganda efforts of
recent memory), presenting WWii as a sham designed to  benefit
multinational corporations that profit from supplying both sides in a
conflict while ordinary people are sucked in through propaganda and lies to
support the war, and die fighting it or as innocent civilian casualties and
victims of genocide. That the author of this novel would back the cowboy
Bush in the latest reign of US terror in a defenseless third world country
-- after specifically attacking Reagan/Bush by name in Vineland --  is
absurd.  But I have to admire the spunk it takes to persist in such
wrong-headed reading.