Now that the Cold War is over, we can afford to take resources from the military and put them into infrastructure and education. This is true, but she still seems to think that the way to deal with any threat is with spine. Perhaps, however, we should lead by example, not by intimidation. There is really no way we can assess the administration's bombing of Sudan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings because the Clinton Administration has declared itself judge and jury of the evidence that the factory was connected to Bin Laden. It was a bomb factory.
History shows that all chickens come home to roost.
It might take a long time, but there will be repercussions to this. Look, for example, at Iran. In 1953, the CIA helped engineer a coup to bring the Shah back to power. But the Iranians remembered. Twenty-six years later, when they feared the United States was again angling to bring back the Shah, they seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.