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Isn't this, er, wrong? Weren't the September 11 attacks caused by Al Qaeda
men who were already in the US, some of them as residents, even citizens?
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it was the previous US
Administration's (pseudo-Left Democrat) unwillingness or inability to
confront the looming horizon of terrorism which allowed the deliberate and
tactical "scattering", the heinous attacks themselves, and the conservative
political backlash we are now experiencing? Isn't the election and
increasing popularity of the more right wing governments in the West, and in
the East also, and the reversion to even more conservative policies and
leaders, due to the general public's lack of faith in "the Left's" stand on,
and ability and willingness to counter, terrorism?

The analogy you make between the Lambton Worm scene in _M&D_ and the Vietnam
War is totally inapt as well.

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Doug Millison wrote:

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> It's tempting to think of the Worm coiled around the White House, whose
> occupant is so quick to identify an Evil Other and seek to slay it, no
> matter what the cost or how suicidal the project might be.
> 
> That Enemy able "to reassemble itself and fight on" sounds a bit like the
> the US's opponent in  Vietnam, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army, in
> the 60s and early 70s when Pynchon is believed to have begun work on this
> novel...and like the al Qaeda forces that Bush the Younger, Slayer of
> Evil-doers more recently scattered around the world.
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