re Re: NP? standing tall, proud to support America

[Doug Millison]

Rich:
[...] The Bush administration in many ways is a disaster for the U.S. [...]

You'll get no argument from me on that point.  ;)  Bush is a disaster for
the rest of the world, too.

Re-reading M&D, with its pointed crititque of Europe's imperialism and
genocide projects in Africa, Asia, America is good context for the
expanding "war on terrorism".  Call somebody -- somebody who's fighting to
defend her homeland, perhaps -- a "terrorist" and  you've got license to
kill, for the Paxton Boys or the Bush Boys, for the continuing profit of
their corporate backers.   You heard it here first:  as the investigation
into Enron goes deeper and begins to embarrass Bush and his cronies even
more than it has already, watch the "war on terrorism" spread and escalate.

It is sad to hear of the handful of American soliders killed in the current
fighting.  It's also sad that the US bombing has killed thousands of Afghan
civilians, and has sent countless more out to gather grass to eat.  And now
the Cowboy President is sending special forces into more countries,
expanding involvement in Colombia, and planning a new invasion of Iraq
(even as the US continues its terror from the air and sanction stranglehold
in that country) -- and I'm sad for the innocent civilians who are dying or
who will die as a result of US foreign policy.  Saddest of all, that this
wave of US terror abroad still, apparently, garners the support of the US
public.  How can something like that happen?  Pynchon's novels are
instructive on that point.