"one's homeland"

[s~Z]

>>>That's OK Barb. You just keep crossing out all the bits of the Foreword
you
don't like and rewrite it however you want to.<<<

While I agree with jbor as far as he goes regarding such, I remain thrown
off by the significance of the 'could' in the Churchill reference, and how,
with the 'could' in place, it relates to what comes before. Bandwraith's
take seems accurate. It seems to me that Pynchon has gone out of his way
*not* to  make a clear judgment regarding our current situation while
raising all of the important questions to be asked in light of current
events.