Syria and Iran.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

A stray thought - what if it's just to 'remind' Iran that they'd better not hezzbollah-up the Olympics, or worse yet, they have info about something planned?

Pete

You might be on to something there Pete.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Hillary, are all part of that establishment.

Pete

Originally Posted by merrylander

I'll take Obama, Reid, Pelosi and Hilary and see your Mitt, McConnell, Boehner and Cantor and raise you 5.

Originally Posted by finnbow

Hillary is the only one worth a sh!t in that whole list (and I'm not really a Hillary fan, but think she has done a serviceable job as SoS.) As for those other clowns, I doubt they'd know how to wash a car.

All true. But, I'm with Rob.

To my mind, the worst thing that could happen to this country short of a giant asteroid strike would be to go another inch to the right. When the GOP gets the voices in it's head under control, then I'll think about it...........

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Absolutely. If the left looses a smidge the country'll go straight to hell.

Pete

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Absolutely. If the left looses a smidge the country'll go straight to hell.

Pete

Now you are catching on.

[piece-itpete]

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Turk-i-ee is bombing inside Syria.

Seems like it might've been a mistake, the last thing Syria needs is an engagement with an outside enemy (and one they can't demaguoge easily either) but with the onging Kurdish troubles who knows.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Btw, wonder how Rob's doing? Haven't seen him for a while.

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Turk-i-ee is bombing inside Syria.

Seems like it might've been a mistake, the last thing Syria needs is an engagement with an outside enemy (and one they can't demaguoge easily either) but with the onging Kurdish troubles who knows.

Pete

Precipitated by a Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish town in which 5 women and children were killed. The Turkish parliament has authorize military operations with a limit od 1 year before reauthorization is necessary.

Turkey is a charter member of NATO. The treaty establishing NATO requires that an attack on one member be regarded as an attack on all. Assad's regime may have just signed its own death warrant. I feel profoundly sorry for the Turkish people who now have to fear both their own government and the Turks, potentially NATO as a whole.

John

[piece-itpete]

It's very serious agreed. I know the west has stayed out of Syria because of Russia and China but I doubt they'll stand in the way of NATO.

It's such a stupid thing I wonder if it was intentional by a rebel sympathizer.

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It's very serious agreed. I know the west has stayed out of Syria because of Russia and China but I doubt they'll stand in the way of NATO.

It's such a stupid thing I wonder if it was intentional by a rebel sympathizer.

Pete

Almost certainly not. Assad has been claiming - and it's probably true - that the rebels are being trained in Turkey and that the border has become pretty porous with rebels launching attacks in Syria and then drifting back across the border into Turkey, much like the Vietcong did in Laos and Cambodia. The mortar attack was probably an effort to take out a rebel safe haven.

John