How Far Will The U.S. Go If Turkey Invades Syria?

Oilprice.com ^ | 17-02-2016 | Erdo

[bananaman22]

The proposed major military assault into Syria holds considerable risk for Turkey, not the least of that being a possible accidental escalation of hostilities with Russia, but it now seems unavoidable if Ankara is not to see a major disaster, not only wasting more than five years of intense effort to overthrow the Syrian Gov-ernment of President Bashar al-Assad, but also to avert the unfettered escalation of the Kurdish war to wrench a large part of Turkey away from Ankara to create a new Kurdish state which would link with Iraqi and Syrian Kurds. Already, Turkey has paid an enormous price in unanticipated consequences from its ef-fort to lead a coalition (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the U.S.) into overthrowing Assad.

The war has taken far longer than anticipated, and has cost Turkey all of its regional allies; it has also unit-ed the Kurds of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria into a desire to finally create their Kurdish state; it has generated a refugee flow from Syria and Iraq which is now beyond Ankara’s capacity to manage; and it has created a major rift between Turkey and the European Union, while costing Turkey most of its political support in Washington (except from the Obama White House and the State Dept.). Moreover, the escalation has led to the Russo-Turkish rift, in which Russian sanctions against Turkey are now starting to bite into an already fragile Turkish economy.

[soycd]

We should support Russia bombing turkey back to the stone age they love so much with their islamo crap.

[nomad]

This time, should he? Tuck Furkey!

[SkyDancer]

Some treaties have this ribbon on the paper so if 0bama does it it’ll make it more impressive or something.

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

O hasn’t honored any of our other alliances. Why start now, especially w/ Turkey?

[Grampa Dave]

You are correct!