Dropping the empty tanks in Turkey may have been a red herring for a possible egress through Iraq. The Turks get to say they were surprised that their airspace was transgressed, and we get to avoid guff from the Iraqi leadersip for Israel borrowing their territory.
Imagine a stealth bomber dropping a load of empty fuel tanks over a desolate patch of Turkey.
I’m just sayin’. . .
This reference the Syria and it’s capital isn’t comforting:
Isaiah 17:1-3
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 17:13-14
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.