eagle1462010
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History of the Caliphate says otherwise........................Radical Islam doesn't want Peace.The dollar is tied to the oil.............the Petro dollar.................some wanted to go to the dinar and the gold standard..............Defeat OPEC.....................
Jesus where do these people come from....................Our current policy is to remove Assad for an Oil Pipeline from Qatar through Syria to Europe............Qatar and Saudi Arabia ARE OPEC..............................Defeat OPEC...............Get your head out of that Dark place..............
To the current policy of the United States...............the beloved FSA.......................They are murdering Christians there...............and they are supposed to be the good guys............
Christians being targeted and murdered in Syria by U.S. backed FSA rebels - GroundReport
WARNING GRAPHIC..............THIS IS OUR CURRENT ALLIES TO OVERTHROW ASSAD......................
ANIMALS............
Maybe people like me come from a place which sees the reality.
In 2001, there were four OPEC countries that hated the US.
Venezuela, Iraq, Iran and Libya.
Hugo Chavez in Venezuela tried to get the OPEC countries together to be a stronger cartel. This goes directly against US interests.
The Powell Doctrine (he was a member of the Bush govt).
Number one, most important, US interests. National Security is not just to protect citizens from attacks, but also from, say, rising oil prices.
- Is a vital national security interest threatened?
- Do we have a clear attainable objective?
- Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
- Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted?
- Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
- Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
- Is the action supported by the American people?
- Do we have genuine broad international support?
So, OPEC was getting strong.
The first thing to happen was a coup against Chavez in 2002. US money was clearly being banded around freely to anyone who would try and take Chavez out of the game. It failed.
2003, invasion of Iraq. Need I say more.
Sanctions against Iran were being ramped up from 2006 onwards. This was in an attempt to get Iran to pump out more oil and reduce OPEC's power further. It didn't really work though. Iran is suffering, but not pumping oil out more than before.
Then you have Libya. Bush had gone when the opportunity came in Libya, but McCain jumped on it like nobody's business. Within 12 days of things starting in Libya, McCain was criticising Obama for being way too slow. Obama then proceeded to attack Syria. It's US interests.
But Syria. It took McCain 6 months to give a damn about anything to do with Syria.
What's the difference? Why did the right want Gadaffi gone so quickly, and Assad they didn't care so much about?
A pipeline through Syria they might want. However it's not that important at all. Oil prices won't change much because there's a pipeline to Europe. It doesn't impact the US in any way at all.
OPEC is much weaker than in 2001. Oil prices are much lower than in 2001. Go figure.
In that aspect, our policy is to take them out...............Libya being a prime example now under Obama...............
Oil is a vital World Commodity............always has been...............BRICS is a Pact to defeat the Petro dollar...............
I'm well aware of the Oil interests in the region..................I'm also well aware that the current Lower prices are because of Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations are purposely Increasing supply to drive the prices down................In response to the BRIC's alliance and to destroy the Ruble.............It is working and Russia isn't too happy about it.......................Syria is about a pipeline....................to sell oil to Europe and to ditch Russia......................
That doesn't change the fact that this region is in a Religious Civil War........a War that has gone on since the 6th Century....................the only difference is now the Wars aren't fought with swords and spears...................but with modern weapons..............the utter barbaric actions of the contestants has never changed...................
You complain about Europe taking control and fucking up the region............before WWI it was already fucked up..........aka the Ottoman Empire...........As they slaughtered the Armenians in the desert and put their heads on pikes...........in the same cursed desert....................The current battlefield in Syria is a GRAVEYARD..................and so history keeps repeating...................
What is the history lesson of this...............the same history lesson taught to the turks in WWI.................Evicted from the area via extreme measures..........aka the French, British, and Austrialian forces killed them and took the land by force..................................at the same time defeating Germany with our help....................
The only way this ends is by force.
War has gone on there, and in many other places, for a long time. A religious war? Perhaps, but one which wouldn't be happening now if the British hadn't have made Iraq like they did and other such decisions that have caused no end of problems.
Yes, the Ottoman Empire did bad things, nothing compared to what the Nazis did in WW2, and things changed there. So why not the Middle East? Probably because the US seems to go in and cause problems all the time.
Why does Iran have a religious state? Oh, the US and their interfering in the last 1970s.....
You say the only way this ends is with force. Force is the thing that's keeping it going. You're wrong, force will not end this. Only peace can end this.