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.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.
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.
Which means that Americans may be fighting there whether we like it or not.
And they decried Dueling as Barbaric.
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We have fallen so low.
w3ski
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.
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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.
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