From a secured airbase, pilots dont see the casualties of war. And it is a good thing. If they actually sawand smelled and inhaled the results of a napalm run on innocent civilians, they'd have a mental breakdown. Fact is that bombs kill women, children, mice, pets, old men, and sometimes a combatant, often however a friendly. And they keep killing children long after the war is over and the pilots are home snug in their beds. Pilots are hermetically sealed from the human perspective of war. To them it's a video game. McCain's rhetoric displays it every time he opens his mouth on the subject. He was brutalized, and he survived. But he joined the service for glory, daddy and granddaddy did and all the boys and girls back home cheered. McCain has been feeding from the silver spoon since birth. And his sons continue the tradition. I'd like to see more swabbies who are proven leaders in the military sent to the academy instead of these spoiled rich boys with their convictions of entitlement.