On Nov 19, 2006, at 5:12 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
JDG wrote:
This is something I and others were saying in late 2001/early 2002.
The panic from the world's most powerful people was baffling. It was
like watching a giant weightlifter get bitten by a tiny ant and
acting as if a shark had taken his leg. Yes, it was a spectacular
and
horrific attack with a terrible loss of life. But it was the
indignity of the response that disappointed.
"Panic"
Yup. That sums up the reaction here, allright.....
I think it was panic too, but the analogy is not exactly that.
I would say it was like being bitten by an ant, not seeing the
ant, and supposing that the ant was a scorpion.
To hear My Fellow Americans talk, it was nothing as harmless as a
scorpion... They are pretty well convinced that it is a cone snail
or a funnel-web spider -- something completely, rapidly and
horrifyingly lethal.
Dave
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