[TomasUSMC]

Besides half hearted threats and hand wringing, what was the response from the Clinton's after the USS Cole?

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Clinton did nothing. But then a few months later Bush was in office and he did nothing either. Matter of fact, Condolissa Rice said the Bush admin was afraid of emboldening the terrorists.

Maybe if we had totally leveled Tehran or Damascus after the USS Cole bombing that would have been a deterrent, if not we could have continued that process until it was a deterrent or the threat was eliminated.

Instead we are playing Vietnam all over again.

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[Alberta's Child]

Maybe if we had totally leveled Tehran or Damascus after the USS Cole bombing that would have been a deterrent, if not we could have continued that process until it was a deterrent or the threat was eliminated.

A number of the so-called "neo-conservatives" actually made public statements in the late 1990s and October of 2000 in which they called upon the Clinton administration to respond forcefully to the embassy bombings and attack on the Cole -- by toppling Saddam Hussein. There was no shred of evidence of any Iraqi involvement in any of these attacks, but the obsession of these neo-cons with a plan of "regime change" in Iraq was so utterly pathological that they didn't have a clue about how serious a threat radical Islam posed to the U.S.

It should come as no surprise that nothing dramatic occurred in the first eight months of 2001 . . . many of these morons ended up working in the Bush administration.