On Tuesday, Turkey deployed a number of tanks to their border with Syria, terming the nation a “clear and present threat” to the Turkish government’s security and vowing to shoot any Syrian troops perceived as “too close” to the border.
The tensions haven’t cooled since then, and Syria has now sent some 170 tanks to the Turkish border, just northwest of Aleppo, in an effort to fortify the area against a possible Turkish incursion. Free Syrian Army (FSA) leadership speculated that the tanks were planning to attack rebels in the area, but it doesn’t seem to be about them.
Rather, since Syria’s downing of a Turkish warplane that violated its airspace, the two nations seem to be on a collision course, and Turkey has been pressing for NATO to endorse the idea that the shootdown was a violation of their “sovereignty” and an attack on all of NATO.
Despite the soaring tensions, US Gen. Martin Dempsey downplayed the seriousness of the situation, praising Turkey’s “measured” response to what he called a “hostile act” by Syria.
dempsee is a dangerous jackass and a dumb fool so is the Turkish president to allow america/israel to put his country in harms way I expected from his past actions and utterances that Turkey at last has a president to move this country ahead."Pity"
Program! Got to have a program! Can't tell the warring factions apart without a program!
Buy your US "approved" program today from the US Department of State. That way you can know who's a good guy from the bad guy.
By the by, if'n you take your US "approved" program to Herr Generalissimo Dempsey, he'll sign it for you. Yup.
"…Turkey’s 'measured' response to what he called a “hostile act” by Syria." Yes, and the US is the beacon of humanism that shines far and wide.
Some people don't understand sarcasm.
"clear and present threat”…., Syria never was a threat to anyone until Hillary Clinton, the Saudis, the Turks, the France, the German, the Swedish, and the UAE, the Jordanians had a meeting regarding the present situation in Syria. The real threat to the world is the US and NATO militarism regime and Turkey is one of the member state. Rest they are a terrorist sponsored governments, rest they are blinded by their nepotism and a falsified democracy wanting to control the world and its natural resources. Look, if Hillary Clinton was a democrat she wouldn't deal with Saudis, she wouldn't help Saudis Kings and Kings Cousins of the Cousins who runs the country in a feudalistic system, She wouldn't let these regimes to send in their barbarians to massacre Syrian people.
Bush got his help when he asked Wahhabis to help him out in Afghanistan, but that was Bush the son of the new fascism in this world, you call yourself democracy yet following Bush, Madeline Albright and Paul Wolfowitz path, sham on you US democrats, shame on you the European social democrat and shame on you Bill Clinton and Obama. There is no animosity toward US by Iran, nor Syrian nor Iraq nor Afghani or Pakistani people, so goes for rest of the world population, yet US and NATO are at war with everyone in this world for last 60 years.
Mark Twain is quoted as saying, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." It seems that this is rhyming with the way that the world marched in lockstep into World War I.
Is DItz a megaphony?
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/jason-…
The short answer is "no."
The longer answer is: In the headline, and in the the first, third and fourth paragraphs of a four-paragraph article, Ditz clearly places the border buildup in the context of Turkish, not Syrian, saber-rattling. He also links directly to the source, rather than hiding it under "activists say" rhetoric.
Creighton's slur isn't just a stretch. It's something that requires a complete break with fact and reality to even come close to treating as believable.
Who is Creighton? LMAO. Antiwar has had some great stuff for over a decade now. What has Creighton done to inform the public and stick his head out in opposition to the empire. I have no idea who he is. For all I know he works for the US government.
Please explain to me "antiwars" position on the 9/11 fraud, the fraud that has done more to contribute to war over the past 10 years than anything else. At least Scott doesn't duck and hide on that important issue and pretend that every US gov announcement of an "al qaeda" killing is legitimate. I own Justins book on 9/11 and its limited hangout at best. For all I know he works for the US government. See how easy that is "goldhoarder"?
Chris,
So far as I know, Antiwar.com has no "position" on 9/11.
Different people who work at or write for Antiwar.com are skeptical to this or that degree of, or completely reject, this or that item in the "official" version. Some have their own partially or fully formed alternative theories (my own is partially formed, and even open to the "inside job" theory if any evidence ever emerges to support it — but I've been waiting nearly 11 years for that to happen).
Does circumstantial(a substantial amount of it) evidence matter to you? Or would only a signed confession on live tv work for you? Are your standards for the governments version of events as high as your standards for 9/11 activists?
And I'm not being facetious here, I'm serious. Did you pass high school physics?
Sorry, Chris. Scott can buy an ad if he calls me at the office. This isn't a free service for you or him.
Why has my comment not appeared?
[moderator’s note: It has appeared, as has your leading question about whether or not Antiwar.com is “censoring” you. When something gets caught in our spam filters, it doesn’t go up until a moderator has a chance to look at it. – TLK]
Shame that this site moderates as heavily as CNN/Fox but I guess I get it. As far as "waiting 11 years" for evidence, thats prety hilarious. Ive been waiting for 11 years for proof that "al qaeda" on direction of Osama Bin Patsy did it. But hey, I guess you trust the government and corporate media a bit more than I do. The burden of proof SHOULD be on them but lemmings tend to give them a pass and place the burden on "truthers" to tell everything that happened. We dont know exactly who did it, thats the point. The evidence points at Israelis and Americans though, not "al qaeda".
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/jason-…
Antiwar/Thomas Knapp censoring now?
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/jason-…
Screen grab.
what he claims is an un sourced report by the times of Israel, if one bothers to read the article is not claiming the free Syrian as its source but a rueters interview with a Syrian general
"General Mustafa al-Sheikh told Reuters that the tanks are now located 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border, northeast of Aleppo."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-syri…
its hard to take someones complaints about sourcing seriously when they did not even read the article in question.
seems the heart of the matter may be easily discovered, with the allegation of something besides domestic opposition as yet a shadowy and at least reckless cause, if not actually as charged a diabolic sinister premedatated conspiracy to wage malicous agression upon a independently alligned state, country, civil peace & government, so goes the Syrian/StyrIaIn establishments charge, as yet the renegade/rebel insurrection has yet post its greiveinces though while a headless organ of mass riot & violence against the larger part of its whole, why do you wage deaths visitations upon house of yer actions, are you foreign mercanary or domestic militia commercially comprimised and just oppurtunist seeking gains of a personal nature, roger that renegade force aka free army of a headless command or HQ, please publically list yer greiveince forms & demonstrate an ability other than renegade mercanery of cover of title & badges army or militia, also, nationality unless dis-ingenious yer faith, trust, beleif, over copy & roger that at large communique plz,,,fauxxbatt1 on listening for report, radio silence on your claims end, 1rst person legitimacy perferred, over, at large & out
You don't need 170 tanks to wipe out the rebels, SAS and French foreign legion and Qatar commandos all together who'd dare to stick their noses out without air supremacy. MSM inflated "rebel reports" should be, if not serious, at least less ridiculous.
This kind of gossip-news inadvertently brings to attention a well known inconsistency found in "anti-tyrants" propaganda, mainly if they're so blood thirsty, hated by most (ergo it's useless to try to appease them) how come the pointed out tyrant doesn't use the devastating power of the military to get rid of all opponents indiscriminatedly? If it is already a civil war (meaning the "rebel" side should be regarded as an important threat to the ruler) how come the tyrant hasn't gone beserk yet (since recent and not so recent history lessons teach him his fate would be horrible if he loses power)?
Truth is the probably most effective item in the regime change agenda appears to be the deadly deadlock (pun intended) when the target neither can get the upper hand through strong police actions because the "rebellion" is fueled from abroad nor through overt military means because it validates the propaganda depicting him as a criminal.
As a tragic irony, the way out of such a deadlock means finding a strong foreign power to back the designated tyrant which then can only escalate a tensed situation and also perpetuates the meddling-imperial model regardless of the victim-actors involved..
A Syrian mechanized division has about 170 tanks, and they don't/can't go anywhere without them. Send the unit, and the tanks go too. More tanks would go if an armored division was sent, and Syria has twice as many armored divisions available. Since they had to shift a unit to deal with what is coming across the Turkish border, this is the least they could do as far as sending tanks, given the units they have and the way they are set up. It is a Russian model (Soviet really) in which all troops are in armor. Send troops, and you send armor. There is nothing else.
This is misleading. Syria has 11 divisions including 6 armored and 3 mechanized (fewer tanks). Syria moved one mechanized division to points well behind the frontier. That is not massing tanks. It is however a very likely response to rebels flowing over the border. Consider what the US demands of Pakistan, but does not get, is essentially what Syria has done in the same situation.