"one's homeland"

[s~Z]

>>>It grounds the Foreword in a post-9/11 present (not to
exclude other references) that includes "fascistic"
(as Pynchon defines it in the Foreword) US government
actions similar to those of WWII Britain, echoing the
comparisons that have been made between Bush and
Churchill since 9-11, and preparations for the recent
war on Iraq. Pynchon's critique of post-9/11 domestic
and foreign US policy -- in this passage<<<

Now if I take out the attributions to Pynchon in this assertion as an
opinion about post 9/11 I agree with it. In fact, I already agree with most
of your personal political opinions, not all, but most. But, when I read the
passage in question, I just don't see what evidently an overwhelming number
of commentators see. I don't see any words or sentences in the passage that
support, or even allude to, the above opinion. I see Pynchon describing what
fascists and pro-guvvies might try to use as an argument against Orwell,
followed by a rather confusedly worded few sentences evidently designed to
contradict their argument. In the contradiction of their argument in the
passage I can find nothing that asserts that Churchill's measures were
fascist, nor that implies that Bush's are. I see him, saying in cloudy
logic, that you can't judge a pre-war position by measures taken during a
war, while he takes no position regarding the wartime measures. I'd be
perfectly happy to see him take that stand, but I just can't find it.