So the question is: Does the United States have any other option short of some sort of massive military retaliation?
Mr Sharon even pointedly omitted Mr Netanyahu from a meeting he held with Mr Mofaz and other security officials to plan the military retaliation.
The post-Cold War world is much more complex, the threats are much less clear and in that kind of a situation, the United States feels that in its defense and in the defense of its allies, it has to have more options than just the option of a massive military retaliation.
In October the Turkish army fired on military targets in Syria in retaliation for cross-border mortar fire.
Syria said the strike targeted a military research facility and vowed retaliation, but has so far refrained from any response.
Thatcher repeatedly called for careful targeting in air raids to protect innocent human life, and she was deeply concerned about preventing retaliation from turning into military escalation.
They said the attack was retaliation for France's recent military intervention against Islamist rebels in neighboring Mali, but security experts argue it must have taken weeks of planning to hit the remote site.
They had claimed the attack came in retaliation for France's recent military intervention against Islamist rebels in neighboring Mali, but security experts have said it must have taken weeks of planning to hit the remote site.
The US military said it did not believe the attack was in retaliation for the incident with the wedding party.
Turkey has been taking cross-border military action, including airstrikes and artillery shelling, against the PKK in retaliation to attacks by the group on targets in Turkey from bases in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Military officials worry that many victims don't come forward because they fear retaliation.
As well as squeezing Mr Milosevic, the monitors are desperately trying to prevail on Kosovo's fractious ethnic Albanians not to take military action of a sort that would be bound to provoke a disproportionate Serb retaliation.
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