You are getting your wish-—the Patriots are exactly designed to keep the battle, whatever it is, within Syria. Seems a little odd to me that NATO is happy, now, to help the Turks tho-—Erdogan was the genius who wouldn’t let us use his railroad to support our ops in Iraq. Makes me wonder if he’s had a bit of a “schooling” in the meantime since he was a newby when we were going into Iraq?
geopolitics: turkey can range at will in the border areas of iraqi kurdistan after PKK, since the area is under ambigous control and iraq is not really aligned with anyone turkey worries about. syria is a different kettle of fish, its uncle is russia which is historically antagonistic to turkey and is not far from its eastern boundary(other side of black sea).
Iraq was not a NATO operation remember? The Turks did not participate, but other NATO member objected also. Saddam did not attack Turkey like his fellow Baath socialist Assad has.