Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
I cannot see how this or anything similar could bring "the December 2012" around. That dictator is pretty much similar to the former Lybian one, and he's obviously going to end up like him, be it international forces or his own people from inside the country, that will put him down. But that's it, just another stinky dictatorship erased from the world, it'll hardly lead to collapse of anything else.
Well, as far as I know, Gaddafi did not have the weapons with the proper range to attack Israel and Assad does. In that case, Israel would retaliate, Iran would intervene as promised, China would intervene, etc.

Here's what I was thinking... There's a great chance Israel would be pressed not to retaliate the same way it was pressed not to reply to Hussen's missiles in 1991. So, this time Israel would say: "Oh, so Turkey could reply and we cannot?!" I'm thinking that was the reason for shelling Turkey. To make a close precedent.

Does that sound a bit more serious now?