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.
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