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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.

I remember Turkish troops and South Korean troops were stationed temporarily in Japan in the 1950s. There was wide argument about which was meaner.
Setting aside the Turks’ more curious habits, we settled on the SKs since they liked to kick the crap out of each other just for fun.