The Case for a No-Fly Zone

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Author(s) Nicholas D. Kristof
Source The New York Times
Date March 9, 2011
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/opinion/10kristof.html
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The secretary of defense, Robert Gates, has said that a no-fly zone would be “a big operation in a big country” and would begin with an attack on Libyan air defense systems. But General McPeak said that the no-fly zone would be imposed over those parts of the country that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi doesn’t control. That may remove the need to take out air defense systems pre-emptively, he said. And, in any case, he noted that the United States operated a no-fly zone over Iraq for more than a decade without systematically eradicating all Iraqi air defense systems in that time.


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This item argues for the position United States should impose a no-fly zone on the topic 2011 Libyan uprising.