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Since closing Pakistan's airspace would hinder America's ability to defend its forces in Afghanistan, Olson, the former ambassador, said the U.S. might regard such action as a "casus belli," or grounds for war.

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"Even with the best of intentions, when you give a single number, you automatically create a potential bottleneck, and it's almost a guaranteed bottleneck if it's the governor's number," said Richard Olson, executive director of Florida International University's Extreme Events Institute.

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