So sorry to see this. Never met him, loved his books ... my words are so inadequate. I reviewed The Dragon Waiting once for the Richard III Society newsletter, basically saying what's true: it's the best novel about the real Richard III there is, even though it's in a completely impossible alternate universe with vampires. And even my husband, no Trekkie, loved How Much for Just the Planet? No more from him ... such a shame.
Parochialism shows up in all kinds of ways. We once had an Italian friend who claimed to be a member of the Italian Communist Party and was constantly dissing Americans as bourgeois running dogs, yadda yadda. But when we suggested going to a Mexican restaurant for dinner one night he refused to eat "poor people's food." I also used to think that Europeans were more intellectual and cultured, until some Scottish people we knew slightly came to stay with us and utterly refused to do anything except shop and go to the beach.
Gotta put in another good word for the Kim Stanley Robinson books (in fact, all of his books). I tore through 40 Signs & 50 Degreesand can't wait for the next one. Some of us actually likethe background stuff as much as we like the action.
Has anyone thought of the implications for our own captured troops in another war, in another place, ten or twenty years from now, if our foe of that moment decides to follow our own field manual?
Anonymous Coward pointed out that the Rethugs don't believe it can happen to us 'Murkans. That certainly can be true, but I think their belief is even worse: if any American troops get captured, they'll just be losers who deserve whatever happens to them. Like Stalin at the end of WWII, ordering the Russians who'd been Nazi POWs into the gulags, or the Japanese soldiers who thought that surrender made them cowards.
I'm not playing any "blame game." There IS no "blame game." I don't know of any "game" that requires 25,000 body bags. I don't know of any "game" where grandmothers in wheelchairs die in the street and are left there for days. If Bush and his people had any souls, or hearts, or feelings for anything except themselves and their wallets -- oh, hell. Finish that sentence yourself. But I blame them, all right, and it AIN'T NO GOD-DAMNED GAME!!!!!
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