Source: www.zerohedge.com – Friday, June 22, 2012
The "Syrianna" story from this afternoon , which many were quick to label as merely a lot of diplomatic hot air and rhetoric, just turned uglier, after Syria not only did not officially apologize as Turkey PM Erdogan implied had happened previously for the shot down Turkish F-4 fighter jet, but instead turned the tables on Turkey, and gave itself an out for what is now a definitive military action. From Reuters: The Syrian military said it shot down a Turkish military aircraft "over Syrian territorial waters" on Friday. " Our air defences confronted a target that penetrated our air space over our territorial waters pre-afternoon on Friday and shot it down. It turned out to be a Turkish military plane ," a statement by the military circulated on state media said. The only question remains whether Syria's act was offensive or defensive. Naturally, its version is one of self-defense. Turkey obviously will claim it was in its right to be wherever the plane may be, and will say this was an act of provocation. Then NATO, read Hillary Clinton, will promptly step in, and make this a case in which Turkey was in its right and that Syria committed an act of aggression. From there, things will just escalate, and can potentially deteriorate to a far more troubling scale, because as we reminded earlier , Syria has recently become a major symbol for NATO vs the Russia-China axis: Here is the rub: Turkey is a NATO member , and by definition th
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