The U.S. is an amazing superpower, one that most Americans simply take for granted.

When Stalin closed the land and rail approaches to Berlin, he hoped to choke the western part of the city into submission. The man who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, General Curtis LeMay, was asked by General Lucius Clay if his transport planes could bring coal to the city. “General, we can haul anything,” was his famous reply. And with that began the Berlin Airlift, with 250,000 flights bringing 2.3 million tons of supplies into the blockaded city. Cows, flour, coal, fuel, machinery, and tons of chocolate dropped with handmade parachutes arrived every 60 seconds. Stalin blinked before the airlift stopped, and the road and rail approaches were opened again. This was one of many exercises of American power (with help from England, which was still a meaningful country at that time).

We take it for granted that B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s are flying routinely over Iran, bringing American destruction to the country that for nearly five decades bellowed, “Death to America!” Well, maybe it was a translation issue, but they should have been screaming, “Death from America!” My kids used to ask me why Israel has no real bombers. The attack on Hezbollah’s Nasrallah required 40 planes delivering 80 precision munitions, and the opening salvo of the current war involved 200 Israeli aircraft and 100 bombs to decimate the Iranian leadership. Israel actually had a few B-17s at the start of its modern journey, but for decades, it has relied on traditional fighters being decked out with a lot of bombs to do what a single U.S. bomber could do with its eyes closed. The brand new F-16s sent to blow up the Iraqi reactor had to be fueled until the moment they took off. They flew very........

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