General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: 'If you weren't skeptical about intervention in Syria before, this should make you think twice' [View all]go west young man
(4,856 posts)for their misdeeds so they continued on doing their dirty work. I know because I waited tables who at Sea Island in Georgia where they hold their yearly meetings. They still have their grand plan and have been busy all over the Middle East trying to enrich themselves. Take the Azerbaijan Chamber Of Commerce for example. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=US-Azerbaijan_Chamber_of_Commerce Many of the same names are there as well with James Baker from the Nixon Admin at the helm.
They are the NeoCons and they are the ones pushing for Syria intervention. Here is one of the main reasons why.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-130813.html Of course the Saudi's are involved as James Baker goes hand in hand with them. Here's an excerpt:
It's instructive to remember that in 2009, Damascus did not sign an agreement with Qatar for a pipeline via Syria; but they did sign the memorandum of understanding last year for the US$10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline. So the point is for Damascus, the deal with Iran was much better; and if the pipeline is ever built Gazprom may even be part of it, in infrastructure and distribution. What Moscow has concluded is that Gazprom won't lose its energy grip over Europe to the benefit of Qatari natural gas. A case can be made that Gazprom holds more power over the distressed, decaying, virtually insolvent eurozone than the European Central Bank (ECB).
So essentially it's really just the same game again and has nothing to do with chemical weapons or liberation of people and everything to do with "The Great Game", US interests, oil, and keeping Russia and China in check.