Behind their unchallenged might, they can fire and no one is really going to fire back. Just think of President Clinton's amazed look the day the three American pilots were captured. He looked like a man who was surprised that the other side would retaliate. Whether it be Kuwait or Iraq or this Yugoslavian conflict, we, in this case NATO, fly over drop the bombs and it never visits this side ever in the same way. This has made us very casual, very blas about joining in.
War is monstrous.
And war is vastly unpredictable. And a nation's decision to drop bombs and kill people of another nation is as fundamental a decision as it ever gets to make. It's my view we haven't thought enough about what we are doing. We have not taken the full moral measure of our actions. What we are doing may be right.