William Burns, the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, will travel to Lebanon and Syria next week.
Two months ago, the Undersecretary of defense for policy,
Douglas Feith, formally contrasted the pre- and post- 9/ 11 approaches: think back, he suggested, to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and to the attacks on Khobar Towers in 1996, on the U. S. East African embassies in 1998, on the U. S. S. Cole in Yemen in 2000.