Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, October 6, 2012

This Is Not Good.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Turkey fired artillery into Syria for a fourth consecutive day on Saturday after another Syrian mortar shell landed on the Turkish side of the increasingly tense border.

The exchanges -- and Turkey's recent warnings to Syria that it would defend itself -- have raised fears of regional conflict. While stray shells and bullets from the Syrian conflict have often landed in Lebanon and Turkey, for the first time a Syrian mortar shell killed five Turkish civilians on Wednesday, prompting Turkey's response.
More worrisome than that is that Turkey is a member of NATO. Which means that if the Syrians continue to fuck with the Turks, then the Syrians will be, in effect, fucking with NATO.

Which means that Americans may be fighting there whether we like it or not.

3 comments:

w3ski said...

And they decried Dueling as Barbaric.
Much better to have killed some arrogant rich dude than a couple hundred thousand civilians.
We have fallen so low.
w3ski

Unknown said...

while U.S. media reports this as Syrian aggression the BBC gives at least a passing mention it could be a false flag op... seems to me the regular Syrian forces have nothing to gain from this and a lot to lose.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/

BadTux said...

I would look at the rebel forces, which have likely captured some artillery and have an incentive to pull Turkey into the situation. Syria's government has issued statements accusing terrorist groups of shooting into Turkey and reminding Turkey that both nations have had problems with ethnic terrorist groups doing terrorist kinda things. That said, if Syria can't handle the situation, Turkey is not going to sit back and let it happen. They may not be Arabs, but they still have that prickly kind of sensibility about being humiliated.