So unless the members of OPEC are willing to fight the rebels for control of Syria after Assad is gone I don’t see an upside for them in deposing Assad. They will simply have supplanted a dictator that is unwilling to cooperate with them for a chaotic state with fighting factions that is unwilling to cooperate with them.
Yup, heck of a place to maintain a pipeline that can be blown with an RPG.
18 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:33 PM PST by Carry_Okie
(Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
You may remember that after Sadam’s fall in Iraq one the major problems with Iraq becoming self-sufficient was the constant sabotage of the oil pipelines and bandits punching hole in the pipes to steal oil.
They couldn’t keep the pipelines in service because of the constant damage being done to them.
I cannot see Syria being different.
20 posted on 02/11/2015 12:05:39 AM PST by Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)