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First of all, military bases can be moved, and military personell and equipment can be moved/upgraded where necessary as well.
The signal that the Turks and Iranians are handing out is the latest attempt to start up not just one, but a series of nuclear weapons programs all over the Middle East. If Iran gets ICBM nuke capability, it not only causes fear and aggression in Israeli heads, it will also bother at least Saudi Arabia and Egypt to have a nuclear weapons program of their own. Such was the status quo all the way from 2006 to 2015's peace deal between the US and Iran.
The Turks should not use the PKK which is a terrorist organisation to them, but also part of the freedom fighter groups in Syria, as a way of getting grips on the moral highground. Each time they try, they achieve the opposite.
The Turks had also better respect the decades-long status-quo of nuclear non-proliferation, and refrain from drawing attentions to their (in my eyes at least) foolish wishes. They should recognize, publicly, that all the Syrian refugees in Turkish refugee camps, have a desire to return home to Syria, but only after the war there has ended and new homes have been built for them. What the Turks do not have to do is pay for Syrian refugee camps on their land, with their own state's tax money. Let that money come from aid organisations like the Red Crescent and Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, etc.
Modern sanctions against Iran's nuclear program, were used effectively and without harming innocent lives too much, from at least 2010 to 2015. They've proven an effective peaceful tool to change the minds of government officials and a nations' elites groups, and can not be compared to the sanctions the Iraqis had to unfortunately endure before the invasion to remove Saddam Hussain from power.
Muslims want to rule their own lands, without the presence of US forces or foreign forces from anywhere for that matter. That is understandable. But only up to the point where you're not stockpiling weapons of mass-destruction. In our day and age, it's *only* muslim governments who have used weapons of mass-destruction as actual tools of war, on other humans.
So, recognizing that Iran and Turkey are now teamed-up to develop an Iranian nuclear weapons capability, what can we in the West do to prevent information-sharing like was just demonstrated by the Turks, from becoming commonplace or a weekly/monthly event?
You make the Turks pay, and get them on a specialized sanctions program of their own.
(1 sanctions program please, fullly flexible and able to respond rapidly to changes in the massmedia- and specialized-news, *PER COUNTRY* or *PER TRIBE*).
And ofcourse, the sanctions program gets a little bit more tight (kinda like thumbscrews, but for all elites and leadership groups of a country/tribe) with each new 'news-offense'.
See, today, you have a bunch of military bases run by US and EU soldiers, *spread out* over the middle east.
The last thing you want is large-scale confrontation like happened in the 1960s in Vietnam or in the 2000s in Syria,
all over that territory that is now *secured BY these US+EU military bases*.
For the same reason, you dont go leaking details about these bases anymore either. No matter who is running such peace-forces bases, ok?!.
There are three more factors in this story that i have to re-mention :
(1) Iran has advocated regularly that they would like to see a world without nuclear weapons.
(1a) That is simply impossible, look up the terms 'nuclear deterrent', 'brinkmanship', and 'MAD-principle', which stands for 'Mutually Assured Destruction'-principle. principle means 'law of nature' in this case.
(1b) ..... (1a) also implies that people like me, and the entire EU + US leadership groups, are fine with Israel having a nuclear arsenal, and the Arab/Muslim nations near to them, NOT.
Israelis are trying to stay peaceful whenever they can, and as much as they can, but they do have the factor of young Arabs growing up and spending their 20s to 30s fighting the Israelis in a stone-throwing vs rubber-bullet + teargas 'war'. Now, that level of tension is *manageable*. And a status-quo i'll defend.
(1c) ... if you say The Quran is Holy for you, i'm fine with that, all i ask is that you recognize that to *me* at least, The Talmud of the Jewish people is Holy to a large percentage of Jews, and The Bible is Holy for me as a Catholic Christian.
(2) Muslim nations want to be allowed to create whatever technology stack that they want. Sometimes, you can't get what you want, not even as a whole country united-about-something.
(2a) you can't claim you want to cure your people's cancer-disease problems by means of nuclear centrifuges making a certain nuclear isotope (a material) for medicinal purposes, *while the same centrifuges* can be used to enrich nuclear material to weapons grade nuclear material.
(3) The war in Syria is now turning into a 'proxy war' where the rest of the Middle Eastern countries try to gain something in powerplays and brinkmanship-rounds.. (like boxing match rounds)..
Is this how you want to end up in the history books, Muslim leaders? Coz it's kinda like the dark-ages was in Europe, the situations you create for your own peoples in these modern times in your own countries and the countries you neighbor.
crossposted/reposted this at http://forums.marokko.nl/showthread.php?t=5573382&p=132671112#post132671112
original story at http://www.france24.com/en/20170720-turkey-usa-military-leaks-french-troops-syria
