And Speaking of Her Highness Hillary Hawk

If I had watched the Democratic "debate", I'd have heard this about the fabulous plan HHHH keeps proposing of creating a No-Fly Zone in Syria:



The Russians would join us? They may be fighting IS in Syria, along with Assad, but in doing so, they are supporting Assad's planes, not ours.

The only point of an NFZ in Syria would be to thwart the Russians - or create a situation to openly declare war on them. We don't already have enough hot water in Syria?

A no-fly zone over Syria, as all parties understand, is a tacit declaration of war not only against Syria, but also against their longtime ally Russia, whose air force is currently flying over Syria to defend the government of Bashar al-Assad against both ISIL and various rebel groups, some overtly or covertly backed by the United States.

But most Americans don’t know what a no-fly zone is, because the media almost never explains what it would entail. Indeed, one has to look to paragraph 19 of an article in The New York Times from 2013 to get some specifics:

Imposing a no-fly zone, [Gen. Martin E. Dempsey] said, would require as many as 70,000 American servicemen to dismantle Syria’s sophisticated antiaircraft system and then impose a 24-hour watch over the country.

That was written before Russia entered the war in September 2015. The total number of U.S. servicemen needed to enforce a no-fly zone is likely now much higher, and the stakes for shooting down a Russian jet, intentionally or not, are much greater than for a Syrian one.

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[Clinton] has lots of company on the other side of aisle, including from GOP establishment favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (with whom she shares a foreign policy consultant, Beacon Strategies), who has repeatedly called for a no-fly zone in similarly vague terms.

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Clinton’s grandstanding may focus-group well and make her look ‘tough,’ but it can only undermine efforts to bring Syria’s devastating civil war to an end.

  alJazeera

Precisely the point, isn't it? Why would a war hawk want to save Syria from devastation - or end war?

Either Clinton is calling for an actual no-fly zone that would involve de facto war against Russia and Syria, or she’s calling for a fantasy one where Russia reverses its entire foreign policy and becomes a client state of the U.S. She’s either being wildly reckless or willfully obtuse.

Yeah. She's being Hillary.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.