Given adequate basing facilites and capacity surely Typhoons flying from loacal airbases would be more appropriate to enforcing a NFZ than harriers flying from an aircraft carrier?
Lord Owen was on the BBC last night calling for just such an operation. It's about time the EU, particularly those countries on the Mediterranean stepped up and showed that they are good for something. It is primarily their neighbourhood and their political, economic and energy ties that are risk. How to win friends and influence people. Get those Typhoons and Rafales moving southwards.