BREAKING: Turkey sends final warning to Syria

when next final warning ? :D

The consequences of attacking Syria, Monday 09 January 2006, four years ago! Look at it from a military and strategic perspective:

By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

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...Syria's military is nothing to scoff at. Virtually every credible analysis has Syria standing as the strongest military force in the Middle East after Israel. ... As of 2002, Syria had some 215,000 soldiers under arms, 4,700 tanks, and a massive artillery capability. The Syrian Air Force is comprised of ten to eleven fighter/attack squadrons and sixteen fighter squadrons, totaling somewhere near 650 aircraft. ...

If Iran jumps into the fray:

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...December of 2004, Iran "has some 540,000 men under arms and over 350,000 reserves. They include 120,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards trained for land and naval asymmetrical warfare. Iran's military also includes holdings of 1,613 main battle tanks, 21,600 other armored fighting vehicles, 3,200 artillery weapons, 306 combat aircraft, 60 attack helicopters, 3 submarines, 59 surface combatants, and 10 amphibious ships." ...

Of all the missiles in in Iran's armament, the most dangerous is the Russian-made SS-N-22 Sunburn. These missiles are, simply, the fastest anti-ship weapons on the planet. The Sunburn can reach Mach 3 at high altitude. Its maximum low-altitude speed is Mach 2.2, some three times faster than the American-made Harpoon. The Sunburn takes two short minutes to cover its full range. The missile's manufacturers state that one or two missiles could cripple a destroyer, and five missiles could sink a 20,000 ton ship.

...A closing of the Straits of Hormuz will bring the developed countries to a grinding halt. "About 90 percent of the oil exported from the Gulf in recent years passed through the Strait of Hormuz..."

And this...water cut off to Iraq by Syria, Turkey, and Iran would severly hinder U.S. troops:

Iraq is mostly desert. Its inhabitable areas are fed by the Tigris from Turkey, the Euphrates from Turkey and Syria and a network of smaller rivers from Iran.

It's going to be interesting to see how this all works out.
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I don't really get the Syria thing. Yes, he is a dictator but sometimes I wonder if democracy may not be an inferior form of government to a good dictator. There would probably be less hands in the pie and it would certainly be easier to overthrow. Unlike the U.S., cause we are really stuck with the big mess we have since it will be so, so difficult to unravel. I would say almost impossible, since we know voting does not work.

So, is it the west in there instigating things and if so to what purpose. It seems to me Assad has tried to maintain a low profile and even torched our rendered prisoners for us.

So can someone please explain this to me, as we have and still do support more despotic regimes than his.

Grab you a Bible...it's all in there. The Book of Isaiah had ALOT to say about the last days and in those days we are told that "Damascus will be taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." (Isaiah 17:1)

Damascus (the capital of Syria) is the oldest continually existing city in the world, it has never been reduced to rubble before. I think we are about to see that prophecy fulfilled! Then we will know beyond a doubt that these are the very last days!

wow...getting really interesting fast

from which website do you get that ?

Hi Godzilla, what do you make if this? Just words? Turkey wouldn't do anything without backing from the US

Heya bud, I don't know...if they are up to something Washington is sure being mum about it...if the turks are still massing on the border with syria then there may be something to it...if anything that buffer zone idea they have thrown around may be the most plausible thing they may do. Either way it'll set off a war once they cross that border the syrians will consider it an invasion

I don't really get the Syria thing. Yes, he is a dictator but sometimes I wonder if democracy may not be an inferior form of government to a good dictator. There would probably be less hands in the pie and it would certainly be easier to overthrow. Unlike the U.S., cause we are really stuck with the big mess we have since it will be so, so difficult to unravel. I would say almost impossible, since we know voting does not work.

So, is it the west in there instigating things and if so to what purpose. It seems to me Assad has tried to maintain a low profile and even torched our rendered prisoners for us.

So can someone please explain this to me, as we have and still do support more despotic regimes than his.

could be Assad hunkering down in preperation for incoming strikes or he's trying to end the uprising in one fell swoop

Turkey going into Syria has been planned for some time and they have even massed forces on the Syrian border that is why you are seeing Syria take cities in a direct path to their border. This is going to happen and it's looking like it could jump off by the end of the week or the start of next.

While I can't see Turkey doing anything directly it's worth watching.

will he kick him into the "pit of death"?