Foreword, when is a homeland not a homeland?

[s~Z]

>>>Think Pynchon chose to use "homeland" without any
idea that his readers might hear in it an echo of
post-911 homeland security and the PATRIOT act?<<<

There is no way to know the answer to this question.
My reading requires zero speculation, so I prefer to
see the passage as a general statement about the
dynamics of war time. No unanswerable questions
need arise.