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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 2:09PM #1
Ironhold
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What does that say about the West when Turkey of all people is the first nation to seriously contemplate helping out in Syria?
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 2:27PM #2
farragut
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What it says is that Turkey is next door to Syria.
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 2:44PM #3
TemplarS
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It also says a lot that Turkey is a Muslim nation.


If the West invaded you'd get the usual BS about modern-day Crusades and so on.
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 2:47PM #4
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And for both the above reasons, it's probably best that it's Turkey rather than the west getting nvolved.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. ~ Proverbs 14:31

Fiat justitia, ruat caelum
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 3:15PM #5
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What it says is that Turkey is anxious to be accepted as part of the EU and the West.
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 3:17PM #6
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As Syria further dis-intregrates it will NOT be surprising to see both Anxiety and Involvement at SOME Level by neighboring Countries -- not ONLY Turkey but also certainly Lebanon (a Syrian Vassel State) and also Iraq ...
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 3:24PM #7
TemplarS
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There has already been some sectarian violence reported in Lebanon as a result of the Syrian situation.
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12 months ago  ::  Jun 28, 2012 - 3:44PM #8
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Syria shot down a Turkish plane not in Syrian airspace; that is an act of war.  Good enough  reason to make a counter move. 

“I seldom make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” Edward Gibbon
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12 months ago  ::  Jul 06, 2012 - 11:13AM #9
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This thread was moved from the Hot Topics Zone

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