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6 responses to “No-Fly Zone”

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   Dreidel

   November 12, 2015

   The idea behind a non-fly zone along the border between Syria and Turkey is to keep Assad’s Syrian air forces from dropping barrel bombs into civilian populations. That idea might have had some merit if done before Putin moved Russian forces into the area, but now it’s too late.

   The risk of our inadvertently shooting down a Russian military airplane — or vice-versa — or too great, and nobody is going to risk starting WWIII over Syria.

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      Clarissa

      November 12, 2015

      That’s exactly what I’m saying. It would be insane to provoke Putin like this. And he’d see this as a huge provocation.

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   David P. Bellamy

   November 12, 2015

   “Surely it can’t be about shooting down the Russian planes that fly over Syria.”

   I think that is exactly what it means.

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      Clarissa

      November 12, 2015

      But that’s insane. And extremely dangerous.

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   Dreidel

   November 12, 2015

   Hillary was asked by Rachel Maddow (on Maddow’s Oct 23 show) whether her idea of a no-fly zone meant that Hillary would give the order to shoot down a Russian plane that refused to leave the zone, and of course she didn’t give a direct answer — said in effect that the idea of a no-fly zone would provide an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the Russians.

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      Clarissa

      November 12, 2015

      Seriously, people are starting to get on my nerves with their fantasy of a dialogue with Putin.

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