WHAT HAS THE PAST 50 YEARS OF US FOREIGN POLICY TAUGHT YOU??
Sure, we have continuously tried to pummel smaller nations into submission and it hasn't worked out so far, but what if it worked this time? This time there won't be the bodies of American pilots paraded through the streets, or plane loads of coffins to unload. Not to mention countless innocents killed.
Mogadishu in 1993, the Black Hawk Down Incident. May have just been soldiers not pilots, I can't recall.