Would US shoot down Israeli aircraft? 22, April 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations.Tags: Air force cadet, Iraqi air space, Israel overflying Iraq, Israeli air force, US Air Force
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The Mideasti blog covers a great little story of a young air force cadet asking a horribly tricky question of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
‘Since Iraqi airspace is a US declared no fly zone’ he began ‘would the US therefore shoot down any Israeli aircraft over flying Iraq?’
The Commander obfuscated about not answering hypotheticals and the great US-Israeli relationship but overall I wholly agree with Michael Collins Dunn commenting that
…I hope the AFROTC cadet enjoys doing his active duty at a radar station in northern Greenland or the South Pole, but it was a good question, wasn’t it?
The Gulf blog 