"gas as a military tool"

[pynchonoid]

>Let's all adjust our meds, and then take a minute to
>contemplate
>Russia's use of nerve gas as a military tool. 


Another country using chemical weapons against its own
people -- I guess the US will now plan to invade
Russia?  Or does that strategy only apply to countries
that can't fight back (the case with North Korea --
powerful army, tough fighters -- I've seen 'em up
close and personal at Peace Treaty Village)? 


Pudding, in the sixth chamber, then with "Domina
Nocturna":
"Now mustard gas comes washing in, into his brain with
a fatal buzz as dreams will when we don't want them,
or when we are suffocating. [...] His men, his poor
sheep, had taken gas that morning."  (GR, 232, 233)


....poor sheep....that's us, all of us, including the
unfortunate victims of the Moscow theater tragedy
(expecting the usual soporific, they get the real
thing), as Bush pushes ahead itching to unleash more
of his so-called "anti-terrorism" strategies and
tactics that have already proven to entail massive
civilian deaths in their wake, as Putin ramps up his
war against terrorism everywhere (see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31089-2002Oct28.html
and hope that he's not serious about pursuing
terrorists "everywhere" -- going after some of the
terrorists the US is said to harbor could lead to some
nasty business here in our own backyard) with the
certainty thta even more innocents will suffer in the
process ...


"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."


...watching the screen, waiting for that missile to
drop...


I agree with Mark.  Sad. 





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