I need help understanding some of this.
Why would Turkey help arm the Syrians? In the past 2 weeks or so I got the impression that the two countries are coming to blows because Syrian rockets (or ours I guess) landed in Turkey, so Turkey retaliated. Is that correct?
If so, I’m just going in circles trying to understand all this now.
It’s all about Zer0’s Islamic Faith.
You might be confusing the Assad (government) side in Syria’s internal conflict with the opposition side. Turkey is mad at the Assad regime. This weaponry is supposedly being funneled to people who claim to be opponents of that regime, but who at the same time apparently are linked to al qaeda.
If the rockets that landed in Turkey from Syrian territory belonged to Assad’s forces (government), then your parenthesis statement that the rockets are “ours, I guess” couldn’t be more wrong. We don’t provide rockets to the Assad regime in Syria. Russia provides weaponry to them.
What you need is to make a distinction between the Assad regime (government side) in Syria and the opposition that is fighting against Assad. And at the same time, remember that the opposition has apparently been hijacked by al qaeda, whatever name they might call themselves.
There are, tragically, thousands of Syrian citizens who have been killed or who have fled Syria and become refugees. Just ordinary people. They hate Assad and they don’t typically cheer for al qaeda either, they just wanted to be left alone to live their lives. But they have been trapped in the situation and their lives have been destroyed.
I wrote on this topic days ago, to answer the claim that we (America) should do nothing...even if Romney wins...just let them over there kill each other off. Let Assad slaughter his own people, let the opposition do their thing without our involvement, etc. My anwer was...and it has become evident by events now...that al qaeda is a huge factor and it wouldn’t be good if the Assad dictatorship continues the slaughter NOR would it be good if al qaeda dominates Syria, right on Israel’s doorstep.
To do NOTHING is bad, just as doing the wrong thing (Obama regime actions) is bad.
You are correct..
However the jihadis still need some further training in the missile aiming and compass reading category.
Generally, aren’t the MB and AQ kind of nomatic.
They take over areas throughout the entire ME...?