Quote Originally Posted by Cliff View Post
In reference to some of the discussions above on a no-fly zone
What do we do if Libya continues internal civilian air flights? Shoot them down? Qaddafi is certainly capable of putting up civilian aircraft for the purpose of luring NATO into an embarrassing incident.

I support some sort of NFZ, but it's useful to work out some of the regime's possible response beforehand.

Frankly, given that Libya has perhaps thirty SAM, EW, and associated C3I and infrastructure facilities left to the regime—many of them colocated with each other or other military facilities, SEAD would provide a useful fig-leaf for what could actually be a rather more ambitious bombing campaign.