[Tzimisce]

...which side are we rooting for here?

[MeganC]

Will Russia back up Syria against Turkey?

[robowombat]

The Turkish military are more than a match for Syria even before the current near civil was. Turkey should be encouraged to involve itself as it will give the US and the UK coverage to quietly walk away from this imbroglio. A turkey distracted by a prolonged stay in a violently broken Syria would be to our interests as Syria would be finished as a player in the mid-east political drama for a long while. So the Islamaciizing regime in Turkey would be mostly tied up with managing the military presence in Syria. Syria would be finished as an Iranian ally. Which among other things would end any use of latakia as a Syrian staging base for their forward deployed naval scheme . (Actually a plan to eventually send surface units carrying cruise missiles with eventual nuke warheads to the Med disguised as fleet auxiliaries to support the small Iranian surface combatant element in the Med.) All in all the US should encourage Turkey in any way possible to intervene in Syria sooner rather than later.

[edcoil]

Lost one aircraft and they are going to do what?

President Bush lost and aircraft to two to friendly firm and president obama lost a drone to Iran and we did nothing.

[crosshairs]

If it involves muzzies killing muzzies I’m all for it.

[Sea Parrot]

Hey Turk, if you are going to shoot, don’t talk, shoot.

[servantboy777]

Destruction of Damascus??

We shall see.

Isa 17:1 The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

[MichaelCorleone]

***Erdogan said his government would retaliate “with determination” and take what he called the “necessary steps by determining the time, place and method by itself”.***

You mean they won’t wait to get UN approval or worry about world opinion?

[COBOL2Java]

Time to hit the links!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

So far Turkey is all talk

[Karliner]

This is a major international cluster****. No one wins, eveyone loses, mostly all them dhimmi Jews and Christians who have lived there for thousands of years.
Damasacus is going to be a heap of rubble very soon Isaiah 17.

[gandalftb]

After action report:

June 22, 1140 hours, Syrian coastal radar detected two unidentified aircraft 6 km. west of the coast, inbound due east towards the coastal village of Ra’es al-Baseet. Aircraft speed was about 800 kmh, altitude was about 100 meters.

The aircraft were automatically radar locked on by a ZSU-23-4 Shilka, a 4 barrel, 23 mm auto-cannon, self-propelled, radar guided anti-aircraft vehicle.

At lock on, both aircraft turned northeast and descended off radar. At 2 kilometers downrange they ascended to 100 meters and were reacquired and locked on.

The ZSU-23-4 automatically engaged fire, striking one of the aircraft in the tail. The disabled aircraft then banked hard left and crashed about 6 km out, offshore the coastal city of Latakia.

At that low altitude it is unlikely that the pilots survived. Wreckage has been recovered and delivered to Turkey.

In my opinion, the mission intended to test the Syrian air defenses from the west of Syria.

[popdonnelly]

If a fighter plane wanders into Syrian airspace, you might expect it to get shot down. The Turkish government is just looking for an excuse to intervene.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

This one bears watching!

[rmlew]

Islamist AKP/Gullen Turkey is helping rebels in Syria and is violating its airspace. It is a threat to Turkey.
All of the parties involved are evil. However, WMDs in the hand of Syria run by the Arab Revival Socialist (Ba'ath) Party are safer than in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. A nuclear Iran is a threat. Syria is weak. And as long as Sunni Islamists are fighting Ba'athists and Iranian special forces, the better. Let them slaughter each other. Hama Rules apply.

[Crucial]

Is Obama playing with the powder keg again?

[Crucial]

I hate to be melodramatic but if this planet sees its end due to the violent morons in the Middle East, it can be said that it was brought about by Barack Obama.

[Leep]

All of the ME should break out in war,battles and conflicts...oh, wait.