On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:32:24 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in
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But the number of incursions with the DC ADIZ really doesn't
say much about the usefulness of the ADIZ.

Actually, it says volumes about the lack of necessity for the ADIZ.

The whole point of
having the ADIZ is so that our Air Defense folks in the NCR can
distinquish friend from foe.

How can you be so sure that the ADIZ isn't a typically poorly thought
out, airline industry inspired, TSA pseudo-security measure to provide
the public with tangible evidence that the TSA are earning their pay,
and the military with additional stateside operational duty?

From an Air Defense point of view it would be easiest just to make the
DC ADIZ one big prohibited airspace without any aircraft allowed at all.

So the DC ADIZ is not a sensible measure. But the airlines, airline
passengers, such as DC bureaucrats and congresspeople, have sufficient
political influence to impose this useless affront to private flyers.
And the news media are milking the public hysteria cash-cow at every
opportunity.