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...whoever is dusting the mail is giving us a glimpse of the ugly scenario that neither Greenspan, nor any one else with a finger on any U.S. economic button is willing to entertain publicly - that diffuse, elusive threats like sporadic anthrax mailings, even if all of Daschle?s staffers are treated and cured, have the potential to turn the one-time economic shocks of Sept. 11 into a dampening, depressing drumbeat of diminished expectations...
...only danger I can see in issuing such a strongly worded warning is if nothing happens this time around, the next time there?s an alert the government may find people lose attentiveness, or patience, and become less vigilant. It?s kind of a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" scenario...
...controls. Should we, as some have suggested, require these students to carry special identification papers, or to register their thumbprint or a DNA sample as part of their entrance exam? Should a red flag go up when a registered international student fails to show up for classes? (This last scenario may have actually played out last month; Hani Hanjour was granted a visa to attend an English-language school in California and never showed up for class. Hanjour, who applied from Saudi Arabia, has the same name as one of the September 11th hijackers...
...London. The Association of European Airlines figures that Europe?s carriers lost $25 million a day in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. British Airways says it will scrap or suspend 190 flights, including 30 on the North Atlantic. The International Air Transport Association said a likely scenario is for air traffic to decline 15% in the four months ending in December, costing the world?s airlines an estimated $7 billion in lost business. Once an empty airplane seat takes off, that revenue is lost forever...
...There are of course other--easier--ways to clean out the "roaches," and for these the U.S. grasped last week. The simplest scenario would be if the Taliban agreed to hand over bin Laden. U.S. diplomats have been careful to leave the Kabul government some ways to save face, insisting carefully, for example, that bin Laden be turned in to "appropriate authorities," which gives the Taliban a chance to surrender bin Laden to an Islamic state instead of to the U.S. Nearly every "last chance" offered to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, though, has been met with a denunciation...