Partly about the pipeline.
But to say it's only about that ignores the work for a decade or more that's been slowly going on by top leadership at the CIA/State Dept towards "bringing democracy" to the region by creating the opposition: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, etc.
The pro-US middle eastern governments are basically vassals for the real Anglo-American financial power elites, which for all intents and purposes have always run the CIA from its inception. These "financial oligarchs" have always had the top level of the CIA at their disposal for any wacky nutty project they want to secretly execute.
This post gives some background:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3060357/posts
All these mideast revolutions are desired by the oligarchs because the local rulers refused to give in to Western central banking and economic and cultural domination.
Once the right puppet is put in place, the central bank gets set up, the investment comes in, the sovereign wealth fund starts investing in US and European investments, the central bank starts buy US Treasury debt, the US big ag companies take over their food business, the state's physical gold is handed over to the the Fed, BOE or BIS, they submit to WHO (their healthcare system), WTO, buying Caterpillar tractors, Bechtel construction (like
Qatar's brand new Hamad International Airport),etc.
Oil and gas are part of the picture in Syria, but there's more.
Right now the oligarchs have too many US Treasury bonds to sell and they need buyers for basically a trillion worth more every year.
You have well thought out remarks.
It reminds me of
Deuteronomy 28 where it is promised us:
"... there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen,and no man shall buy you. "
Our Us Treasury debt has become unmanageable, INTENTIONALLY to "Collapse the System".
Our Treasury Bonds will become worth less and less, until they become dedsired by NO ONE. THAT is what Obama and his Puppet Master are doing, and more for our destruction.