Originally Posted by
mundame
I think the war is heating up bigtime in the Syrian area generally. Not only has Israel been bombing and getting shelled, also our own American forces have started fighting, exactly at the same time, "in self-defense," yeah, right, all one-hundred of them, in a group. Turkey has been warning us not to keep supporting the Kurds, and just yesterday changed the street sign the U.S. Embassy is on, in a meaningful manner. Turkey is a NATO member (who thought up THAT stupid idea) and so if the U.S. and Turkey start fighting, that really is a diplomatic conumdrum.
We will of course be at war with somebody soon --- look at this world --- but I had thought it would be North Korea. Instead, Syria is going up. I thought that one was simmering down as Assad won.
Turkey is a NATO member because it IS "the land bridge" between Europe and Asia, and sits on the Black Sea. Remember, Cold War lines were drawn in the 1940s, and technical ability then was what it was. We had several bases in Turkey. Two AFBs I know for sure. I lived on Karamursel AFB. They were spy posts. Insurlik actually had fighters and stuff. Karamursel was mainly a spy post. And surprisingly, not on Russia. I dad was an Arabic linguist, not Russian.
Same deal when we lived on Crete.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke