As an airman, I'd have done this a whole lot differently than I was allowed to do. We could have done this differently. We should have done this differently. Airpower is very seductive to American leaders, because it combines our love of technology with our distaste for the bestial aspects of land warfare. You do it nice and cleanly.
Nobody gets their feet muddy.
A pilot flies over at 15,000 feet, kills only those people that need to be killed, flies home, and has a cold beer with a beautiful lady. I don't have a good feel for knowing how close they are to breaking, but I'll tell you that, if we do this for two more months, we will either kill this army in Kosovo or send it on the run. If the bombing is done with the notion that our own blood is not to be shed, it is obscene. Quite frankly, these little boo-boos, where you're hitting a KLA headquarters, where you're killing innocent citizens, I think is hurting the image of the military, which is unfair. I had adequate opportunity to make my views known and to raise all the issues I wanted to raise.