THE MIDDLE EAST — At a sprawling desert airbase in the Middle East — one not far from Iran and the geo-strategically critical Strait of Hormuz — I saw the past and future in aerial reconnaissance cross-paths.

This instructive moment, however, was symbolically inverted. In the Hollywood version, the future takes off and the past lands, rolling off into the sunset. Just the opposite occurred. The past, a black U-2 spy plane, took off and shot skyward with a characterist ...

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