This week's non-technical quote comes from the International Herald Tribune, in an article by William Pfaff, who I assume to be an American resident in Europe:
"But what actually has happened during the past nine months is something Americans have yet to grasp, and that others have yet to say out loud: People outside the United States have stopped believing the American story."
Link: URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/115911.html
It's a phenomenon I now see frequently in the UK but most of my US friends seem, as yet, to fail to grasp its existence or the reasons for it.
Trust, as I mentioned recently in relation to Microsoft, is a fragile thing. Easy to lose, difficult to recapture.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 2, 2003 07:39 PM