I think the president has been consistent,

That's a controversial assertion that I'll stand by.

This has been a trend ever since the Vietnam War.

on some mean streets somewhere.

Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.