[stimpyone]

call it what you wish, but 3 months before Bush took office Bin Laden nearly sunk a U.S. warship, justification enough for an all-out assault that would have sent an immediate message that the U.S. had a new attitude toward terrorists.

[Valin]

You could say the samething going (at least) back to the Beirut bombing. I can understand why the terrorists would think that we are a "paper tiger" given the way we've reacted to there attacks for what 8-20 years.