VLVL2 CAMP

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL2 CAMP


> just like the Nam, really, and with a whole lot of the same
> > people flying the search-and-destroy missions in the choppers and
> > dropping the defoliants and destroying the fruit orchards and the
> > farmhouses with mini-gun fire...."--David Cassere
> 

The similarities are there.

> 
> I guess some never stop comparing every war to the war in Vietnam,
> really, 

Only the ones violating international law and human rights.

>but Pynchon doesn't do that in Vineland. 

But the war on drugs and the Vietnam war are topics in the novel.

> Hint, Hint, Hector is
> Mexican-American. Reagan didn't send weapons to Iran to get money to
> funs his dirty little war in Vietnam.

Reagan's "little war in Vietnam?" Impossible.