Until the next terrorist outrage??
I'm not downplaying ANY terrorist act against a US installation, or citizens. And the fact that innocent people from 80 different nations died in the WTC attack, as well as those hundreds of non-US citizens who died in the African bombings, states clearly that we're carrying this retaliation out on the behalf of the entire world.
And Clinton was a fool... He was the Jimmie Carter of the '90s, with regard to his underwhelming and misguided acts of retaliation (especially since they were concurrent with MonicaGate). It was Clinton's administration that refused to deploy heavy armor to Somalia to perform as a rapid reaction force.
If there's anything that should always be associated with military action, it should be "P" for plenty, and that there is no such thing as "equitable retaliation" when it comes to securing the lives of your citizens around the world. If they threaten you with a knife, shoot them with a machine gun.
And Gustave... there will be terrorism whether we do something or not...
But the threat of that terrorism will be even greater if the US doesn't undertake every effort to root these guys out and make them more concerned with their own self-preservation, than carrying out attacks upon the US.
L'Audace, L'Audace.. Toujour L'Audace..
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