That would be a good point for the present situation, percipitated by Carter's dropping of U.S. support for the Shah. Then there was Pan Am 103 followed by Reagan's having FTD deliver a bouquet to Kadafi's tent, but then the bombing of the marine barracks in Lebanon, the bombing of the towers housing U.S. personnel in Saudi, the first WTC attack. the embassy bombings, then probably the Murrah building and TWA 800, and finally WTC II. Except for Reagan's retaliation against Kadafi and Bush I's Desert Storm, little was done (other than coverup and fake retailiation) until Bush II got serious. Rather than do what he is doing he could have posed it as a criminal action, ala Clinton, rather than doing the courageous thing and taking it to the perpetrators on their own ground. It is nice to have intelligent, brave adults in the WH.