Several years ago, a friend of mine and I visited the SS William G. Mather, a retired ore carrier that is a museum ship in Cleveland. We got into an email discussion about marine boilers, which I have modified and posted up on my other blog. Because of different computer crashes, I had lost much of that discussion and I asked her if she could find it. She did last night and sent it to me.
This discussion took place in December, 2001. As you might expect, in the emails, there were a lot of other things mentioned. One was this short musing by her on what the terrorists may have in mind:
"The bombs the Taliban are dropping cause enough terror to get us to spend like drunken sailors. Fear and economic suicide are the real weapons, bullets or their ilk are just to keep the process going. Between economic loads and assaults on the Constitution it could set up a crash. Maybe. It looks like more of a plan of the patient, watching us pecked to death by ducks.
"And then again, maybe not."
I'm voting for "maybe."
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