Responding to D.Spires comment:

>See Afghanistan today. And, while this might be considered "hindsight" to the average public, this is proven tactics
>to the military.

The decision to destroy both the Taliban and al Qaida was obviously correct. I do not dispute this. However I do dispute that Clinton had the option of following this correct strategy immediately after the embassy bombings. The (ineffective) cruise missile attack was the only politically acceptable response at the time. Now if we wanted to pursue this line of speculative Clinton bashing, we might ask: "What would Clinton (or Gore) have done were he president during 911?" My guess is he would have continued using cruise missiles and made the situation even worse. Fortunately neither Clinton or Gore were president at the time.

Gary