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Soaring a hundred or more feet in the air, a drone camera captures hawk’s-eye views—and dazzlingly abstract patterns—normally impossible for earthbound humans.

In the High Street, St. Mary the Virgin, parish church of the University, provides a hawk’s-eye view from its 13th-century tower with all those “dreaming spires” Matthew Arnold gushed over in the 1860s.

And the measure – along with a previous suggestion in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that Obama should have tortured Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law – provided yet another window into his political philosophy: a hawk's-eye view of American exceptionalism honed by his own boots on the ground.

The hawk's-eye view shows the wreckage of mountains, dead land that will not revegetate, soured rivers, towns left to wither when mineral prices dropped and distant corporate directors cut their losses.

A hawk's-eye view makes the case unforgettable.