According to retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, a memo from the Office of the US Secretary of Defense just a few weeks after 9/11 revealed plans to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years, starting with Iraq and moving on to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. In a subsequent interview, Clark argues that this strategy is fundamentally about control of the regions vast oil and gas resources. According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business, he told French television: I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria. Assad refused to sign a proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline from the latters North field, contiguous with Irans South Pars field, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey, with a view to supply European markets crucially bypassing Russia. Assads rationale was to protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is Europes top supplier of natural gas. When Putin refused, the Saudi Prince vowed military action. The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan was a direct slap in the face to Qatars plans. No wonder Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, in a failed attempt to bribe Russia to switch sides, told President Vladmir Putin that whatever regime comes after Assad, it will be completely in Saudi Arabias hands. It would seem that contradictory self-serving Saudi and Qatari oil interests are pulling the strings of an equally self-serving oil-focused US policy in Syria, if not the wider region. It is this - the problem of establishing a pliable opposition which the US and its oil allies feel confident will play ball, pipeline-style, in a post-Assad Syria - that will determine the nature of any prospective intervention: not concern for Syrian life. https://youtube/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:26:10 +0000
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