To: SunkenCiv
Are they nuts? Turkey backed by NATO takes Syria out in about 10 minutes.
5 posted on
06/26/2012 7:56:56 PM PDT by
DManA
To: DManA
Bashar al-Assad must be trying to get the nation to rally around him.
8 posted on
06/26/2012 8:00:18 PM PDT by
tsowellfan
(Should Obama recuse himself from making any decisions on immigration?)
To: DManA
Even without NATO’s backing, Turkey’s army and airforce would smash the Syrian army in under a week. It would be not be bloodless on the Turkish side, either, but Turkey has armed forces to the tune of 600,000 (obviously not all combat infantry, but it’s the second largest army in Europe, after Russia’s). And Syria’s armed forces would start to come apart at the sectarian seams when the shooting started.
10 posted on
06/26/2012 8:06:04 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: DManA
Are they nuts? Turkey backed by NATO takes Syria out in about 10 minutes.Turkey's ability to project power more than a few miles beyond its own borders is pretty limited.
13 posted on
06/26/2012 8:12:36 PM PDT by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: DManA
Turkey is hated by:
kurds
iranians
russians
the balkan states
eastern europe
armenians and other states in the caucasus region.
Syria would get plenty of help.
To: DManA
Not exactly. Turkey has no Chemical or Biological WMD. They have signed onto the nonproliferation treaty. Syria has not signed onto the treaty and they possess a large stockpile of Chemical WMD. And it is possibly that their biological capability was enhanced with Saddams stockpile. Syria can take out Turkey by attacking its civilians. Turkey has no defense from that and can only retaliate by having the US use its nukes that are stored in Turkey for NATO’s defense. Now can you imagine how difficult it would be to get the green light to retaliate with those nukes ?
To: DManA
Talking in the name of Balkan countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece) we would go against Turkey in no time. We just need a reason to get them once and for all.
And as far as I see, Israelis would too.
33 posted on
06/27/2012 1:21:01 AM PDT by
kronos77
(Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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