The recent violence in the Mideast has now claimed its first American casualties: 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer that was the target of terrorists as it pulled in for refueling in Yemen. President Clinton has vowed to identify and punish those responsible for the murders, as he should. But the grim reality is that tracking down terrorist masterminds can be an agonizingly slow process, often with little to show for results. But a hasty response can be the worst option of all, as it was when the Clinton administration ordered a missile attack on a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan.
Even now, it is difficult to determine if the attack on the Cole was …
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