BillD,

"What we DO, of course,is what we can. IF we can find the individuals who did this, we deal with them....harshly. "

which is what has been proposed here.

"There is, so far no evidence that Yemen knew about or condoned the attack, (different form the situation in Afghanistan in 2001), so we can't exactly go barreling thru Yemen, corralling suspects."

Noone has stated that Yeman was involved, on any official level. The past incidents there ( under Democratic Presidents) ALL had US FBI teams "assistng: the Yemani government.


"This is a different world today! We used to be able to IDENTIFY our enemies...now they are often just malcontents hiding among innocents..(or at least non-violent non-friends). There IS no obvious way to combat fanatical idiots. "

greed- so what do we do? Investigate, or just allow them to go plan more attacks?


"We can, at least, try to get those 'innocents' to be more friendly and not just make MORE enemies, like we have done in Iraq..."

When the terrorists kill more civilians and nationals of the country in question than US citizens, one suspects they WOULD appreciate those responsible being brought to justice.


Just my opinion, mind you.

Perhaps the best thing would be to prohibit all interaction between US and other nations, to remove the temptation for such incidents. Close the Embassies, prohibit traval, and not allow foreign nationals into the US. Have to seal the borders, of course. But then we could not have to worry about it, since they would only kill "foreigners" and that should not be of any concern to us.

(Sarcasm)