The Syrian pipeline and the plan to empower al-Qaeda

[grillo7]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines

"Assad refused to sign a proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline from the latter's North field, contiguous with Iran's South Pars field, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey, with a view to supply European markets - albeit crucially bypassing Russia. Assad's rationale was "to protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas."

This reveals fairly well why Russia and the US are really squaring off over this, and it has nothing to do with chemical weapons. As usual, oil is the primary factor of this push for intervention, both in the short term (pipeline), and in the long-term (geopolitical control of oil in the region).

Then, courtesy of the military's think-tank RAND, we have the conclusion that by empowering al-Qaeda in the region, we can actually reduce their targeting the West, by having them involved in intra-regional and internal conflict there. Now, what I had seen as hasty and ill-informed on the part of the administration to get involved, seems calculated and planned, in a perverse way.

It's nth-dimensional chess alright, but it's Dick Cheney's chessboard...

[joeybee12]

1. Well, the Guardian never truly loved Obama...

KNR

[janlyn]

2. I have been telling people

for years that , our invasion of Iraq was motivated by control of proposed routes for oil and natural gas. And that Iraq was only the beginning!
That countries with Russia as an ally would not willingly allow routes through their countries. The majority of Americans need to know the truth. And while my sharing of this on facebook, is by itself not going to get the word out, my hope is that it will be shared by others!