Turkey, Syria trade fire as border tensions mount

You're spot on Chuck. Don't worry about the pettifogging negatives, there's no shortage of people who are falling for the mass media demonization of Syria. Those of us who venture behind the narrow scope of the Reuters/AP tag team know that the Syrian situation is far more complex than childish rebels equal good and Syrians equal bad storyline.

It cannot be a civil war when 95% of the opposition are not Syrians as reported by German Intelligence and others. Some reports indicate that it is the rebels who are firing mortars into Turkey in order to allow Nato into the conflict in areas where they are not already involved).