It is intolerable that our service members have become the sacrificial lambs of an administration that demands they be the world's police force. Our national interests are not served, and our foreign policy continues to be muddled and confused. Without a doubt. The terrorist actions against the USS Cole have left me with a profound sorrow for the loss of 17 American sailors' lives. I feel immense anger that these terrorist looters robbed them of their lives.
Terrorism is no longer faceless or blameless.
It accomplished nothing by looting the lives of our young men and women. Although the world has grown indifferent to these acts of terrorists, we can never forget that this was not an indifferent act. It was planned, carried out and financed by those who do not respect life. They do not know how to compromise when there are differences of opinion. Yasser Arafat's fueled fires of hatred may be spreading, but America knows how to fight fires and how to contain hazardous waste.