[FITZ]

For one, bin Laden has almost come out and claim he is behind it. And this actually wasn't such a big surprise, the WTC had already been hit once, the 19 Marines were killed, the US embassy in Africa as bombed. It's not like everything's been just fine and we had no idea there were Muslim terrorists until Sept 11.

[Sparticle]

The 19 Marines you mention were the ones killed by a Palestinian suicide truck bomb, right. That was 76 Marines killed and 115 wounded.

Click here to read about the Weinberger Doctrine. The current Afghanistan thing is no different than our raid on Tripoli in April 1986 after an attack on a Berlin Disco frequented by American servicemen -- just a different poster-boy of futility.