Turkey warns "not far" from war after Syrian attack By Ece Toksabay and Ayat Basma | Reuters â 8 mins ago ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday his country was "not far" from war with Syria following cross-border attacks this week - words which highlighted the danger that the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Asaad will drag in its neighbors. In a belligerent speech to a crowd in Istanbul, Erdogan warned the Assad government it would be making a fatal mistake if it picked a fight with Turkey. The speech followed a Syrian mortar barrage on a town in southeast Turkey that killed five people on Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/turks-syrian-border-skeptical-shelling-003554469.html NATO---- An attack on one is an attack on all.
Obama doesn't believe in honoring such state agreements. What he will do in the event of conflict will be a political decision. Will it aid his campaign or detract from it? And, what he says to the American people and what he does may be two separate things.