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The US Wants Syrian Oil, Not Democracy
“… the Persian Gulf, the critical oil and natural gas-producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices.” –John Bolton, George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations
ll the hubbub over Syria is all about oil. And if you don’t believe me, believe John Bolton.
When there’s something being talked about in the news on a regular basis, and if one angle of the story is being consistently reported by various reputable news organizations, you can be sure there’s something else to the story that isn’t being told. Matt Taibbi called this “chumpbait” when referring to the media’s unified dismissal concerning Bradley Manning’s court-martial. The same applies to the latest corporate media stories speculating on US military involvement in Syria.
If the US were really concerned about spreading Democracy in the Middle East, we’d be helping the Occupy Gezi movement oust Turkish Prime Minister Ergodan and condemning his violent suppression of human rights, rather than assisting the Free Syrian Army. And the only reason the powers controlling the US would be interested in intervening in Turkey would be if Turkish protesters or government forces shut down the highly-productive Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which goes from Iraq through Southern Turkey.
All of the media has been atwitter about whether or not the US should get involved in the civil war unfolding in Syria by supporting anti-government forces. The atrocities recently committed by the Free Syrian Army are reminiscent of the kind committed against the Soviets in the 1980s by the Afghan mujahideen, whom we actively funded and supplied with arms. (Remember the movie Charlie Wilson’s War?) It should be worth noting that the same mujahideen fighters we funded to fight our enemies for us in the 1980s became our enemies even before the 9/11 attacks.
In a roundabout way, the US media is making the argument that because the Assad regime is using chemical weapons on the Syrian people, the US military should intervene by arming and training the Free Syrian Army in the hopes of overthrowing President Assad. On the surface, most Americans would agree that Assad is a brutal dictator and should be removed from office. But if you asked most Americans whether or not the US military should intervene in Syria to make sure the profit margins of oil companies remain strong, it’s likely most rational folks would say no. Digging just beneath the surface, it’s easy to see that US interest in Syria isn’t to provide Democracy to Syria, but to ensure the Kirkuk-Banias oil pipeline will be restored to profitable status. Even President Obama’s press secretary said that foreign policy isn’t driven by what the people want, but by what is best for “American interests.”
The Kirkuk-Banias pipeline runs from Kirkuk in Northern Iraq, to the Syrian town of Banias, on the Mediterranean Sea between Turkey and Lebanon. Ever since US forces inadvertently destroyed it in 2003, most of the pipeline has been shut down. While there have been plans in the works to make the Iraqi portion of the pipeline functional again, those plans have yet to come to fruition. And Syria has at least 2.5 billion barrels of oil in its fields, making it the next largest Middle Eastern oil producer after Iraq. After ten unproductive years, the oil companies dependent on the Kirkuk-Banias pipeline’s output are eager to get the pipeline operational again. The tension over the Syrian oil situation is certainly being felt by wealthy investors in the markets, who are thus dictating US foreign policy.
It’s easy to see why the oil-dominated US government wants to be involved in Syria’s outcome. The Free Syrian Army has since taken control of oil fields near Deir Ezzor, and Kurdish groups have taken control of other oil fields in the Rumeilan region. Many of the numerous atrocities that Assad’s government committed against unarmed women and children were in Homs, which is near one of the country’s only two oil refineries. Israel, the US’s only ally in the Middle East, is illegally occupying the Golan Heights on the Syrian border and extracting their resources. The US wants to get involved in Syria to monopolize its oil assets, while simultaneously beating our competition – Iran, Russia and China – in the race for Syrian black gold.
Big oil’s ideal outcome would be for US troops to back the FSA’s overthrow of the Assad regime, meaning that sharing in Syrian oil profits would be part of the quid-pro-quo the US demands in exchange for helping the Syrian rebels win. It would be very similar to when the US, under Teddy Roosevelt, backed Panama’s fight for independence in exchange for US ownership of the Panama Canal. But even after numerous interventions, including the kidnapping of Panama’s head of state, the Torrijos-Carter accords gave control of the Panama Canal back to Panama in 1999. The imperialistic approach to Panama turned out to be more costly than it would have been if we had just left Panama alone in the first place.
George Santayana said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. If we don’t learn from our past mistakes, like basing foreign policy goals on greed-inspired imperialism, Syria will blow up in our faces.
8 Comments on "The US Wants Syrian Oil, Not Democracy"
BillT on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 3:22 am
I would say that it is about keeping the dollar the world reserve currency and the only way to do that is to try to control the one resource most every country needs … oil. Every past threat to the dollar has been disposed of, until now. The world is turning it’s back on the dollar. China is leading the way. We live in interesting times…
Others on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 3:46 am
Did US get any Iraqi oil, no.
Similarly it will not get Syrian oil as well.
China will take every thing.
Its high time US invests in EVs, Biofuels and Natgas for transport fuel.
Plantagenet on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 4:52 am
Syria doesn’t have large oil deposits. This entire article is BS.
DC on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 5:18 am
Well, the article is only 1/2 right. No doubt the US and it oil cartel will drain Syria of its oil, not because they are swimming in the stuff, but just because its there. There are too many other considerations for the murdering US war-machine to simply put it down to ‘oil’. Although I dont disagree this latest bout of US terrorism is about oil, its not necessarily *for* oil. That part comes later, which, if the uS war plans go as hoped, US forces or a puppet dictatorship. are installed in Tehran. And after that, Russia at some point. The article is correct about the pipeline however.
I see Others does not yet grasp why the US seeks to control oil producing countries. The US did not have any immediate physical need for Iraqs oil, that was never the point. Had your oil corporations actually not destroyed Iraqs oil infrastructure and tried to ship it to the ‘homeland’, all it would have done is great a huge glut even amerikans couldn’t drive aimlessly in circles to get rid of. IoW, it would have sharply depressed oil profits at home. The real goal, was to re-privatize all that nationalized oil in all those countries around the globe. All the countries the US seeks to subjugate all have, or had, nationalized oil companies that severely limited US oil companies involvement, or forbid it outright, or did not allow the US as a big a ‘cut’ as they felt they were entitled to.
Shaved Monkey on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 7:48 am
If you want to be invaded or have internal rebels supported to over throw your government just dont like Israel, have a leftist government that controls your resources,talk about or start trading your resources not in Us dolllars and wait.
Arthur on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 8:25 am
As plant says, Syria does not have large oil reserves, so arch-neocon Johnny B. is lying through his teeth. This associate of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and co-PNAC-plotter and major force behind the invasion of Iraq is trying to hide the fact that for neocons countries are mere pawns on the international chessboard that need to be ‘taken out’, or as fellow neocon Michael Ledeen once put it: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business” (not even Nazis ever made statements like this). The prime reason why Syria is under attack is because it is an ally of Iran. And Iran is the last major proxy of Russia/China. And obviously fossil fuel is the mean reason why Iran is in the crosshairs and a major proxy in the first place, but not non-existing Syrian oil. Iran escaped the NWO and being a western milk cow in 1979, thanks to Khomeiny, who kicked out the sjah Anglo satrap dynasty as well as the westerners and that is the real reason why Iran is under fire. But the western cards are extremely weak in the case of Syria, not because the US lead west cannot topple Assad, it can, but because of the unintended consequences. Toppling Saddam or Assad is easy, but the desired outcome: Iraq/Syria becoming a meek western satellite, like Saudi-Arabia, did not happen, c.q. is not going to happen. What does happen is unleashing the forces of fundamentalist Islam and the creation of pure Sunni and Shi’ite empires, that both will be utterly hostile towards the West… and Israel.
The sun is setting upon the Western empire and this is extremely good news for all Europeans in Europe and North-America, who against their best interests are forced to act as agents for zionist NWO designs and the implied destruction of European civilization in Europe and North-America.
Two days ago Vladimir Putin dropped a bombshell of unprecedented proportions, nota bene in a jewish museum in Moscow, saying that “first Soviet government was mostly Jewish”…
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish-1.530857
…confirming what Hitler had said all along: that the greatest crime state in world history (and US ally against continental Europe during WW2) was run by jews. And now they have the US under control (but not yet destroyed the Constitution). In another major development, a British scolar Caroline Sturdy Colls in the past few days published a pdh study where she was forced to admit that forensic research carried out by her has shown that there is no mass grave in ‘extermination camp’ Treblinka (google it up). Oops, there goes the holocaust, the intended new global religion of the NWO. The NWO, the result of decades of media brainwashing, is melting before our eyes, all thanks to the internet and no NSA can do anything about it. 😉
Syria either will stay in place as an ally of Iran or the Assad regime will implode, initiating a humanitarian desaster of biblical proportions, even bigger than that in Iraq, where up to one million people were killed as a result of the invasion. If Assad falls Sunni jihadis from all over the world will flock to Syria and turn it into a killing field and the US generally will be seen as the enabler of that drama. And Washington knows it and hence the reluctance to commit yet another blunder. The US effectively handed over Iraq to Iran. A US intervention would in the end lead to handing over an ethnically cleansed Syria to Turkey and the rest of the Sunni dominoes would fall soon afterwards, with the main prize Saudi-Arabia and the Caliphate would be restored. And Israel would vanish. Lose-lose situation for Washington.
BillT on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 10:45 am
The World is run by the bankers, not the governments. This game is reaching it’s final inning. It appears to be boiling down to East vs West. It really doesn’t matter who wins.
There will not be much left by 2050. I see scattered, diseased, mutated tribes wandering the few livable areas left on Earth. All trying to avoid the thousands of radioactive areas, the dead lands.
Arthur on Fri, 21st Jun 2013 11:52 am
http://www.englisc-gateway.com/bbs/topic/42175-french-ex-minister-says-we-were-preparing-to-make-war-on-syria-2-years-ago/
In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said:
“I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria… Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria.
They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate. Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me…
This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned… in the region it is important to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance.
Consequently, everything that moves in the region, and I have this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me ‘we’ll try to get on with our neighbours but those who don’t agree with us will be destroyed.’”
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Let that last sentence sink in. We are dealing here with the most ruthless people on the planet since Djengis Kahn. People who organized the “Russian revolution”, leading to the worst tiranny in history, set up the world for WW2, kill JFK, destroy the US with mass immigration, telecrash planes into NYC high rise buildings, organize the Iraq invasion based on lies and now are busy trying to organize genocide in Syria. And these people lord over the US and UK.
Houston, we have got a problem.