Civilian airliners have been violating the No Fly zones for two years. USAF and RAF fighters intercepted them at first and force several to turn back. But the Russians began ignoring the interceptors and just pressed on. It rapidly became clear that they would not fire, and since then there has been regular flight service from several countries through the no fly zones. Fighters still meet every flight though.Darth Wong wrote:Too late. The hypocrisy boat sailed the day after 9/11 when the Bin Laden family was allowed to violate the American no-fly zone so they could go home.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Well, honestly, Saudi Arabia is a considerably more obvious target in the War on Terror than Iraq. So I don't understand why what he's saying is such a big deal. I don't oppose the war on Iraq, but I think that if the bar is low enough for us to invade Iraq, than sooner or later we have to take out Saudi Arabia, or do something to staunch the flow of support to terrorists from that country, and acknowledge their role in supporting terrorism, or risk utter hypocrisy.
Anyway, unless [1] it was a private plane, [2] the family was known to be onboard, you don't have a case for this being some massive act of hypocrisy.
Really, if a pilot does not belive a interceptor will fire, then theres not much that can be done to force the plane down without a very high risk or one or both of the involved aircraft crashing.
