NATO is expected to quickly endorse Turkey’s request for Patriot missile deployments along the Syrian border. This isn’t necessarily going to mean the missiles will even be sent to Turkey soon, however, and even the most optimistic say it will be weeks before they are operational.
That’s because even if the alliance rubber stamps the request, it doesn’t necessarily mean the nations that have the missiles will automatically do so, and the parliaments of either Germany or the Netherlands, the closest suppliers, will presumably want to vote on it. To avoid a vote Turkey could go with the US as a supplier, but they are much farther away.
The whole deployment idea is rubbing Russia the wrong way, however, and they are warning both Turkey and NATO against the plan, saying they should be trying to help broker peace instead of militarizing the border.
Though a handful of artillery shells from Syria have strayed into Turkey, officials concede they aren’t sure who fired them, the strikes have been intermittent, and it probably isn’t economical to send $3 million interceptors up to shoot down single artillery shells at any rate. The move is therefore primarily political, and effort by Turkey to flex their muscles in the region, but weeks of delays is putting it so far after the fact it is making the move seem even more ridiculous.
Now that Israel trained its forces bombarding Gaza killing innocent people, now that Turkey requesting for patriot missile, now that Kurds are assembling their forces along the disputed area in Iraq, now that Israel have sold worth of many billions weapons to central asian country, now that Afghanistan generals are talking about staying beyond 2014, now that Syria is busy with Islamist and other form of terrorism.., so is about time to put all pieces together and see who is inline for next war.., you guessed it.., Lebanon and then Iran.., but there is a problem.., Europeans are not ready yet, that is due to EUs budget problem and people in general are on strike not wanting to do anything for the Neo Liberal Fascism any longer, until they have solved the EUs economic.., otherwise the Rat Mussen of Denmark is always ready to send the patriot missile to Turky and start another war as Israel is looking forward to it.
I can understand why Russia doesn't want those missiles there. They could conveniently intercept any Iranian missiles launched in response to a US or Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic.
Perhaps someone should notify the ex-KGB agent and current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, that Jason Ditz (along with his linked lame-steam "sources") from AW.C 'says' there is nothing to be "concerned" about here…
http://youtu.be/Pt13OAYXhPU
I find it hard to believe that Ditz have been to any of those countries, let alone Europe, let alone far from his local McDonalds and a steady flow of cheese-burgers. I as a European dont call this journalism, this is parroting, copying and pasting. Mr.DItz should try to learn something about these cultures and their fate at the hands of the Ronald McDonald USraeli war mahcine…