NATO: First Time-Ever Joint Millitary Exercise With Arab Army

April 26th, 2009 (14) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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In World War 3, which side will the US government be on? New NATO Member Turkey is often held up as a “Moderate Islamic Nation.” Now they are teaming up with Syria. Do you think they are having maneuvers and strategizing on how best to defend Israel and Western Values?

          NATO member Turkey and Syria hold first joint military exercise

DEBKA File Special Report

         Turkish tanks head for Syria

The joint Turkish-Syrian tank and armored infantry exercise backed by air power begins across the Turkish-Syrian border Monday, April 27, and lasts three days.

DEBKAfile’s military sources stress that it is the first joint military maneuver any NATO member, including Turkey, has ever carried out with Syria. It appears to have received a nod from the Obama administration and another first: Never before has an important NATO power staged a joint exercise with any Arab army.

Ankara’s decision to launch the drill on the day Israeli commemorates its war dead – in league with Iran’s leading ally – is a measure of how far Turkey’s longstanding strategic pact with the Jewish state has fallen by the wayside of recent changes.

Washington’s approval underscores its new policy of boosting the strength of the Syrian army as partner in a strong a three-way military coalition with Turkey and Lebanon.

Ankara made its announcement while US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was on a short visit to Beirut.

It comes only four days after another first US step: Tuesday, April 22, DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources reported that the Obama administration had just approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army assigning Turkish military instructors to train Lebanese army units (half of whose personnel are Shiites sympathetic to Hizballah.)

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Neither of the Obama administration’s actions took into account Israel’s vital security interests; nor was Jerusalem consulted about the strategic changes on its borders – or even informed.

DEBKAfile reports that both US drastic policy reverses are causing extreme consternation in Israel’s top security echelons, which are criticizing the new Netanyahu government for taking too long to respond to the dire security setbacks piling up around its borders. The most troubling development confronting Israel in years is the grouping together of the Turkish, Syrian and Lebanese armies.

According to the statement from Ankara, the joint exercise “aims to boost friendship, cooperation and trust between Turkish and Syrian land forces and to increase the capability of border troops to train and work together.”

In recent weeks, too many developments are closing in too fast and too dangerously for Binyamin Netanyahu to put the whole can of worms on hold until he has a chance to figure out his policies and talk to Barack Obama in the coming month. The dynamic on the ground will be in full flight by then. Too late, the Israeli prime minister will find the security situation running out of his control. Turning back the clock will be hopeless and he will find himself fed some unpalatable accomplished facts.

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  • Gaige Mosher

    Word-Drum and Pat,

    If the US Military were ordered to attack Israel, do you think they’d follow the order?

    • pub

      I’m curious as well.

    • YERMOM

      one must really wonder.

    • http://worddrum.wordpress.com/ Word-Drum

      This is beyond my ken,(I would love to hear from Vets or those in the Air Force) but that doesn’t stop me from imagining that no Air Force Officer or Commander, knowing the Israelis, and having worked closely with them, would give the order to fire on our allies.

      I almost wish Obama would give the order, so the fighting can start. We can always rebuild the White House again, should it be burnt to the ground.

  • pub

    Holy crap. :sad:

  • BT

    When will the Jewish community in this country become outraged enough and make a stand for Israel? Have they become consumed with liberal ideology that they will sit back and watch the world turn on their homeland? :???:

    • BT

      Oh yeah, I think Syria is were most of the WMD’s were scurried off too. :mad:

    • Gaige Mosher

      Basically the short answer is: They aren’t Jews anymore.

      Oh sure, they might ethnically be Jewish, but they no longer believe in the Law and Promises of Ha’Shem.

  • Shaun

    Let us pray the military leadership can differentiate between friend & foe of the America which is based on the Constitution.

  • Ballsander

    What the fuck is this guy doing? I guess he really wants another war. I’m practically speechless.

  • Reloader449

    “The idea was not to create a perfect state operating by the clockwork principles of Marxist law but to promote a chaos that would cripple America and ultimately cast it into a receivership that would be administered by the morally superior third world … people shouldn’t expect the revolution to achieve a Kingdom of Freedom; more likely, it would produce a Dark Ages.” — Jim Mellen, leftist radical, 1967
    (from Destructive Generation, Peter Collier, p.77)

    • Reloader449

      now replace

      “cast it into receivership that would be administered by the morally superior third world …”

      with:

      “cast it into Sharia Law that would be administered by the King of Saudi Arabia … ”

      and you have an idea of the “Hope and Change” coming.

  • Joe Mudd

    So how many of our military will follow orders given by an anti constitutional president that is a direct threat to the union of these United States?
    How many Police officers will arrest TEA party participants protesting the same?
    A fight looking for a place to happen.
    Any bets as to where this candle gets lit?

  • falconfixer

    Uh, you realize that Togarmah is the Hebrew name for modern Turkey, right? As in Ezekiel 38-39.