Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 5 ga Disamba, 1996, Shugaba Bill Clinton ya sanar da zabarsa na Cohen a matsayin Sakataren Tsaro, yana cewa shi ne "mutumin da ya dace" don gina kan nasarorin (sakataren tsaron ritaya) William Perry "don tabbatar da goyon bayan jam'iyyun biyu sojojin Amurka dole ne su samu kuma a fili sun cancanci". A matsayin Sakataren Tsaro Cohen ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen jagorantar ayyukan sojan Amurka a Iraki da Kosovo, gami da korar Wesley Clark daga mukaminsa na Babban Kwamandan Sojan NATO. An kaddamar da Operation Desert Fox a Iraki da Operation Allied Force a Kosovo 'yan watanni bayan da al-Qaeda ta kai harin bam a ofishin jakadancin Amurka
a Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, da kuma Nairobi, Kenya, a shekara ta 1998.