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.

Alberto Monteiro
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