Stlhead,
How long do we wait to respond? Lets put our head in the sand and say an attack ever few years is OK. How bad would it ahve to get before you responded. Yearly, monthly, weekly. Yes the management was crap but to say that the emb, cole, trade center, somalia and all were not enough to have to "try" to do something about it is stupid. What would have been you tipping point.......30 dead in a day not enough, 300 obviously not, not even 3000 in one day. Then when? Wait for 30,000 maybe. The pacifist attitude did not work when Clinton was in office and it got worse and worse. the Bush policies have not been run well but hiding under the desk and waiting for the next shoe to drop is not an option.
Kaiser,
Most reasonable people would not blow themselves up if a Chinese or iranian ship was in harbor to refuel. As far as fighting if being overrun, that is different......I saw Red Dawn in the day as well adn would do the same. The anthrax was home grown and that seems to be well known. In a country this big there will be some nuts. Okla city for example, home grown....but that is different for a what happen in the Cole, emb, WTC adn all the others. To aquate them to make a point is either dishonest or not understanding the difference.