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[jasonlulu_2000]

We have met the enemy, and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-pox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest, suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it�s hard not to wonder if the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings. �Most of the infections we think of as human infections started in other animals,� says Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at Columbia University.

What does underlined sentence "We have met the enemy, and he is ours." mean?

thanks

[pugachevV]

This is a word play on the famous quote from the foreword to The Pogo Papers, (q.v.) by Walt Kelly (circa 1953).

The original quote is: We have met the enemy and he is us.

[jasonlulu_2000]

thanks.

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN THIS SENTENCE???????