The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (ed. Vintage, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307428714