Posted on 10/28/2016 7:07:25 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Retired senior US military pilots are increasingly alarmed that Hillary Clinton’s proposal for “no-fly zones” in Syria could lead to a military confrontation with Russia that could escalate to levels that were previously unthinkable in the post-cold war world.
The former strategists spoke to the Guardian as Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump warned that Clinton’s proposal to establish “safe zones” to protect beleaguered Syrian civilians would “lead to world war three”.
The proposal of no-fly zones has been fiercely debated in Washington for the past five years, but has never attracted significant enthusiasm from the military because of the risk to pilots from Syrian air defenses and the presence of Russian warplanes.
Many in US national security circles consider the risk of an aerial confrontation with the Russians to be severe.
“I wouldn’t put it past them to shoot down an American aircraft,” said James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, on Tuesday in response to a question from the Guardian at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Those who have patrolled no-fly zones over the relatively freer skies of Bosnia and Saddam-era Iraq fear that a President Clinton would oblige the US to what one retired US air force three-star general described as an indefinite “air occupation”. Such a move would risk the lives of US pilots – and dare confrontation with a Russian military which is more aggressive than it has been in years.
Critics of the plan also question how using US military power to establish and police a safe space for beleaguered Syrian civilians would contribute to the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad – the explicit goal of US policy in Syria.
“If she is not politically posturing, it’s going to be a disaster.
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No Fly Zone in Syria. Dumbest idea ever.
How does she think that one sovereign country (USA)
can declare a ‘no-fly-zone’ in another sovereign country (Syria)
without that declaration being either:
‘A’ ... approved by the UN (Russia has veto power)
or
‘B’ ... an act of war?
Well, duh!
Russia is in Syria at the government’s invitation to drive out Isis and Hillary’s goons. Of course there will be a war. Russia will use their anti aircraft system to take out US planes and the rest will be enough to distract the world from the Clinton Crime Syndicate.
I'M WITH HER
PING!
You don’t get to fly if you’re under house arrest do you?
Maybe Hillary shouldn’t worry about no fly zones anymore.
GET OUR S—T OUT OF SYRIA.
NOW!
Hillary’s plan for making people for get after she is elected, is to start a nuclear war with Russia, kill off a few hundred million people, and then no one will remember her crap
a no fly zone is foolish it only works when you are so militarily supier to the other person they cant retaliate. no fly zones worked in Iraqi because we were a 100 in military strength compared to a 5. you cant enforce against Russia a no fly zone because it would be a 100 against a 75 in military strength. they could really fuck us up if we got into it.
Given the chance, the NeoCons will get us all killed.
What?
Hillary is a neo-con?
Give me some of what you are smoking.
Of course she is....full neocon. She differs from Bush only in style.
She came. She saw. She demanded a no fly zone. Now all she has to do is convince Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordon, Iran and Israel to go along with the plan. And of course she must forget how Saddam made a mockery out of her better half’s no fly zone in Iraq.
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