April Glaspie redux.
O'Neill was on to bin Laden like white on paper . . . he then died in the WTC, if I recall.
Absolutely not. This article omitted an important point - Bodine advised Clinton's State Department against sending the USS Cole to Yemen on the "good will mission" in the first place. She was right, but her advice was ignored with disastrous consequences.
She learned a lot from Glaspie's mistakes - which is understandable since she volunteered to remain at her post in Kuwait and protect American citizens during Saddam's invasion in 1990.