Saturday May 30, 2012
I’ve Been Thinking:
Syria will not invade Turkey and Turkey will not invade
Syria. It is all saber rattling.
Yesterday Syria amassed 170 tanks along their northern
border, the 900 mile border that they share with Turkey.
A week ago Syria shot down a Turkish F-4 Phantom plane and
since then Turkey has been spouting rhetoric about Syria and about how Turkey
must defend itself.
The 170 tanks on the battlefield came as a response to
Turkey’s response to Syria’s response to Turkey.
Aleppo is 19 miles from the border with Turkey and the tanks
are north of there. Reports of the tank
movements came from opposition leaders and have been confirmed by residents who
saw tank movement.
Moving 170 tanks
takes time and clogs up traffic. Tanks
are moved two at a time on flatbeds so that their tracks do destroy the roads.
Hopefully, the rhetoric and the military maneuvers will tone
down over the next few days.
Unfortunately, it can be very dangerous when the big toys are taken out
– they sometimes go off. That is what
got Syria and Turkey, two otherwise friendly nations, into this situation in
the first place.
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