Sounds like Gwynne not only brings a sense of proportion, he brings popcorn, too. Only a bright mind like Gwynne Dyer could portray terrorism like it's the common cold.
I suppose he puts that on his Happy Earth Day cards he sends to the the families of 9/11: "It's strictly business."
It seems to me one of God's little ironies that He has arranged things such that the more intelligent people become, the more they are ensnared in their own intellectual jungle until they become eloquent idiots.
I am thinking God likes simple people and despises the arrogant.