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jorgelito · 02-27-2005, 02:11 PM

What I don't understand is, why would Canada allow an "enemies'" missiles or whatever fly through their airpace en route to the US? Isn't that a threat to them as well? Assume the following scenario: North Korea launches missiles at the US via Canadian airspace, we shoot em down (or more realistically, we shoot some of them down say, optimistically 25%). Some missiles land in Montana, a couple malfunction and land on Canadian soil, others cause close calls with various airliners of various registry. Wouldn't Canada be pissed at North Korea?

If the reverse happened: Say Mexico launched misslies at the Canadians via US airspace (ridiculous, I know): Wouldn't we be pissed at Mexico, NOT Canada?

This is silly, we're close, we've been good buddies for a long time. I'm sure we'll resolve the issues.

Sh!t daswig! You beat me to it! (LOL!)

That's a good point: many Canadian population centers are located near American ones:
Seattle-Vancouver, Toronto, etc. So, theoretically, a missile threat to US cities could be a threat to Canadian cities as well (Read: mutual interest). Especially "sloppy" North Korean or Scud types (gives new meaning to , "off by a mile").

02-27-2005, 02:11 PM	#91 (permalink)
jorgelito All important elusive independent swing voter... Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia	What I don't understand is, why would Canada allow an "enemies'" missiles or whatever fly through their airpace en route to the US? Isn't that a threat to them as well? Assume the following scenario: North Korea launches missiles at the US via Canadian airspace, we shoot em down (or more realistically, we shoot some of them down say, optimistically 25%). Some missiles land in Montana, a couple malfunction and land on Canadian soil, others cause close calls with various airliners of various registry. Wouldn't Canada be pissed at North Korea? If the reverse happened: Say Mexico launched misslies at the Canadians via US airspace (ridiculous, I know): Wouldn't we be pissed at Mexico, NOT Canada? This is silly, we're close, we've been good buddies for a long time. I'm sure we'll resolve the issues. Sh!t daswig! You beat me to it! (LOL!) That's a good point: many Canadian population centers are located near American ones: Seattle-Vancouver, Toronto, etc. So, theoretically, a missile threat to US cities could be a threat to Canadian cities as well (Read: mutual interest). Especially "sloppy" North Korean or Scud types (gives new meaning to , "off by a mile"). Last edited by SecretMethod70; 02-27-2005 at 06:24 PM..