Unless the GOP is able to convince voters the impeachment proceedings are based on more than disapproval of his private sexual affairs, revelations like Bob Livingston's will continue. Few of those claims have borne out, however. From World War II, when German war production surged during four years of bombing, to Vietnam, where the Ho Chi Minh Trail added a few lanes despite constant pounding by B-52s, air power has repeatedly demonstrated its limits.
Infantry wins wars.
And if history is any guide, the Nintendo-style air spectacular against Iraq won't deliver much of a lasting solution to the menace of Saddam Hussein beyond the booms, bangs and flashes filling TV screens in American living rooms right now. Unless it can get Saddam himself, which is unlikely. To be sure, Saddam will be hurt. Iraq can't shrug off 200 cruise missile hits every day, more than were fired during the entire 43-day air assault of 1991, with heavy bombers to come. That, as George Bush famously said, cannot be allowed to stand.