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[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
. . .
>         Paul Nitze—The man who brought us the Cold War.
>         By Fred Kaplan
>. . .
>http://www.slate.com/id/2108510/

IV is a detective novel. It might occur to a 
reader of IV to do a little detecting rather than 
broadcast just anything that sort of looks real. 
What is Slate? Who are its founders and owners? 
Who is Michael Kinsley who worked as the 
moderator of William Buckley's Firing Line and 
edited the right wing (neoliberal, cough) New 
Republic? Who is Fred Kaplan and what payroll 
might he be on? Perhaps the dreaded National 
Security Apparatus itself. The article shows that 
Mr. Nitze was kept around for unknown reasons and 
also basically kept in the dark One might wonder 
why he was kept around - forever. The article 
shows that the Carter administration certainly 
did not let him know what it was doing.

Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>. . .
>In terms of alternate history , which seems to me to always be the
>driving force of Pynchon's work, I find Hughes to be key and if
>anyone wants to read the vigilant California post, which also points
>to points to Watergate. . .

History alternative to what?
Alternet is sort of like a blog that lacks any 
thorough analysis. The San Diego episode 
mentioned just does not make sense. Who would 
benefit from the antics described?