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[QUOTE="Vanadium 50, post: 6851397, member: 110252"] First, some bad news for Don. Nobody in DC gives a hoot about Kansas. They call it "flyover country". I suspect a good number of them think the whole state is in black and white. Whatever the rationale, it was not "protecting Kansans." I agree that shooting it down over water means you don t have to deal with lookie-loos, or "yahoos" as they have been called upthread, but if you shoot it down over water, then it's over water,. Recovery is not so easy, especially if you want important litte tiny parts. The Canadian response was less outraged than I would have guessed. I am surprised it wasn't more along the lines of "whatever disagreements you have with the Americans does not give you the right to violate sovereign Canadian airspace." Now, I expect the Chinese don't give a hoot about that, but am still surprised pf the reaction. Maybe it's related to my first paragraph: the Prairie Provinces are to Ottowa as Kansas is to Washington. As far as a dangerous payload, the Chinese are not stupid enough to do that. It's interesting that the Chinese are hopping mad and even threatening retaliation. The US position could well be "Golly, you said yourself it was out of control. Can't leave a hazard to navigation out there. Why that would be irresponsible." [/QUOTE]
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