I’ll admit I don’t know what the USS COLE was doing in YEMEN, but I bet it was involved with protecting our oil and security interests. Do you ride a bicycle? Use oil or oil products?
I do know a Navy soldier who was on a similar mission in the middle east during that period. He boarded ships of those who were potentially carrying weapons to be used for terrorist attacks on our interests there.
Yes I benefit from oil imports. But I would never ask your child or my sons to die to protect my appetite for oil. That may be the basic difference between Paul and the rest of the globalists.