Now it was time for Americans to dance in the streets and shed tears of happiness and relief. Instead my friend Eyre and I met in a pub. That's why this was more harrowing than even the Cuban missile crisis. Back in 1962 the U.S. and the Soviets stood on the brink of nuclear war. This time we teetered on the brink of the unknown.
Nothing beats the unknown for giving aroused patriots the willies.
I asked him. Eyre thought it over. China could have stopped exporting yellow ribbon to us. That would have brought America to its knees. After what the Chinese put us through, I surmised, the national yellow ribbon reserves are probably pretty much exhausted.