I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Attacking Iraq now will cause a lot of problems,

We are the world's leader. We fill a void. There is no one out there that even comes close to filling the leadership role that we have, and some of the moral responsibilities that we have.

I think it definitely would be harder.