"Unlike Arafat's dictatorship, where he can do anything he wants and he calls the shots. And unfortunately, they are lethal shots. But you asked me principally about air power. Look at this country. Look at this country. It used F-16's -- and rightly so -- against Saddam's aggression against another country, Kuwait. It used F-16's against another dictatorship, Milosevic. And it bombed a lot of targets. And by the way, I think that America did the right thing. They did absolutely the right thing. But America's cities weren't targeted. Nobody was bombing Washington or New York. You didn't have just bombardments of Times Square or Macy's. You didn't have shoppers being blown up."
January 1, 1970
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