Unfortunately, the implication of that high pitch excitement was that wishful thinking had caused us to place all our eggs in the Al Gore basket. And when the Florida abracadabra produced Bush, a momentary silence fell on our foreign office. All the Jaswant Strobe Talbott minutes were in the hands of the new administration in Washington. Christina Rocca was going to take some time to settle down. Meanwhile a short cut offered itself by way of Bush's NMD statement.
Questions come in a cascading torrent.
Moreover, even Americans are still debating a highly questionable technology. One questions the hurry, not the primacy of the American equation.