Pynchon as propaganda

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In a message dated 4/3/2003 2:28:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:


> The time for questions as to the futility of war or the justice of war 
are in the > past. We are viewing (reminiscing) the scene from a point 
   at which war>  and all the atrocities that inevitably flow from war have 
   long since > become a given.
> 
Only if one has already decided one must fight and there are no other
alternatives. War may be inevitable as long as there are people who
believe that to be the case. However, and this is to the point of the
passage, fighting is an individual choice. So, for any given individual,
making war is not inevitable. Quakers are one example of a group that
support the individual decision not to participate in war and see such
behavior as the antithesis of cowardice and disloyalty. Quakers do not
"work for the army," as the clergymen in the passage, but for God.

respectfully

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