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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42722)	5/25/2002 5:27:22 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A pertinent statement on a thread on a different subject of bio tech that I thought is quite helpful to define present India Pakistan standoff and habit of calling wolf too often <’’Adult snakes (rattlers) learn not to spend their venom on defensive manoeuvres on humans, which they are not interested in eating. They reserve most of it for prey they can fit in their mouths. Baby rattlers are much more dangerous. They will inject the majority of their inventory of venom. They unlearn that behaviour when they are hungry. They bite their prey and it walks away. Silly kids.’’ > Sabre rattling and disproportionate threat rarely works in strategy, don’t spend your venom on something you cannot digest rather save it for the day when you are hungry and you really need it for your prey, natural laws cannot be discharged without impunity, too much of crying wolf and excessive sabre rattling is always counter productive. Mush capitalised on it today as he commenting on the Indian reaction to today's missile test of Hataf-V (Ghauri) where the Indians said; "We [Indians] were not impressed by these missiles," the President said:" We do not want to impress you, we are showing our defence [capabilities]." They [Indians], he stated, talk of giving two weeks or two months time [to Pakistan]. "We are not impressed by such talks either," he said among thundering applause.