[elfman2]

" I reckon that'a your way of answering yes to the first of my two questions, while attempting to avoid answering the second. "

Then you're no better at reasoning than you are at reading. Re: " No, they probably didn't, at least not in any coordinated and organized way."

You're purposely acting like an idiot, digging your heals in, refusing to recognize the obvious, that the Cole bombing was a result of a sleeping nation taking a politicized military for grated, and bears no resemblance to today's wartime state of readiness and alert.

Don't bother me again.

[per loin]

Looks like a second attempt at avoiding a direct answer to my second question. As for our supposed "today's wartime state of readiness and alert", that is precisely what is at question in this thread. The first of the two incidents was not even reported to the WSP or the Coast Guard for days.

And BTW, your devolution into personal insults is as foolish and ineffective as your arguments. I suggest you brush up on both.