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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (10672)4/6/2001 7:20:27 PM
From: The Philosopher   of 82486
 
Anyone remember
when we violated Soviet airspace ALL THE TIME with U-2s and SR-71s?
How soon we forget.

Sure. I remember Gary Powers well. Kholt and I may be the only people on this thread who remember Gary Powers and Ike as a current event, not a historical event.

But in the present case, were weren't violating their airspace (except in as much as they claim airspace they clearly aren't entitled to claim under international law. Heck, we under their argument we could claim the whole Pacific triangle bounded by Hawaii, California, and Alaska. But we don't.) That's the major difference.

If we had been violating their airspace, no argument. But if it's an unarmed plane, they have the obligation first to demand that it leave (as the Russians recently did with a Delta flight) and if we don't, then to shoot us down,.

But that's not the case here. Even the Chinese seem to have given up on the argument that we were in a place we had no right to be.
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