Why Is the Deep State So Angry about Syria?

The Duran ^ | October 16, 2019 | Steve Brown

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Considering that the United States largely created the fiasco in Syria beginning in earnest in 2011, it is difficult to consider the Kurds as a US ally, when the US placed the Kurds in harms way by inciting them versus America’s own NATO ally in 2011.

Israel has been at war with Syria since 1948. Period. Full stop. It has been at war over the Golan, West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Shebaa Farms, where no peace agreement or armistice has ever been signed or accomplished between Israel and Syria. During this time, the hegemonic power behind Syria’s war has primarily been about land, water, and resources, while Syria possesses tremendous untapped oil and mineral wealth.

Now in these changing geopolitical times the Kurds have been forced to negotiate with their neighbors instead of looking to the United States and Israel for support. Since Donald Trump has withdrawn most US forces from Syria, let’s explore in detail why Neocons and Neoliberals in the west are going spare about Syria.

According to the EIA: “Syria is the only relatively significant crude oil producing country in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Syria produced about 400,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of crude and other petroleum liquids in 2010.” And, “According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Syria had 2,500,000,000 barrels (400,000,000 m3) of petroleum reserves as of 1 January 2010.”

Syria’s oil and gas production accounted for 1/5th of Syrian state revenue in 2010, and 1/3rd of its exports. Subsequent to the US State-led rebellion in Syria during 2011 however, Syria lost control of the oil fields east of the Euphrates.

Kurdish tribal elements in Syria have controlled the oil fields east of Deir Ezzor since then, and traded that oil to the United States in exchange for weaponry and funds to pursue battle with Turkey, and to some extent ISIS.

Like the United States, Israel too is aware of the enormous oil and gas reserve present in eastern Syria. On October 10th, Netanyahu wrote, “Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies. Israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant Kurdish people.”

Now, what can Israel do to prevent the Turkish ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Kurds in Syria? No doubt the irony of Netanyahu’s statement here is lost on him, and strikes the rest of the world as somewhat tongue-in-cheek at best. Netanyahu says Israel will provide “humanitarian assistance” only, which highlights the erstwhile Israeli support for the Kurds since 1964, when ben Gurion judged the Kurds to be a strategic partner versus Saddam Hussein’s ‘radical Arab’ regime.

Indeed, besides seizing the Golan, West Bank, Shebaa Farms and Southern Lebanon from Syria, the Deep State’s tactical support for the Kurds is based on the strategic interplay of feuding powers as defined by Saddam Hussein’s rise to power in 1969.

By 1972 Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger believed that the Kurds would provide a useful foil to oppose and undermine the strategic alliance between Iraq and the Soviets. Israel too insisted that Kurdish instability in Northern Iraq would force the Iraqi leadership to maintain troops there, and prevent Iraqi forces from attacking Israel.

But even Nixon and Kissinger knew that a people split between four nations and without access to the sea could not form a viable state on their own. Promises made by the United States to the Kurds were (in eventuality) not kept, and Israel too was incapable of providing the Kurds autonomy.

As a result, the Kurds developed into a sort of mercenary force, fighting on behalf of Israel (versus Saddam) or for the United States, ultimately for financial gain; while the PKK – labeled as a terror group by the US – worked to destabilize Turkey, particularly resurging in 2011 with Clinton’s ‘Arab Spring’.

Considering that the United States largely created the fiasco in Syria beginning in earnest in 2011, it is difficult to consider the Kurds as a US ally, when the US placed the Kurds in harms way by inciting them versus America’s own NATO ally in 2011… and then put the Kurds on defensive via the ISIS terror group in Iraq and Syria, the very ISIS terror group that the United States itself created.

Consider too the 1996 Israeli IASPS blueprint for the region (detailed in this October 10th tanker attack article) if we accept that the US withdrawal prima facie is a fundamental change to the global hegemonic after twenty-four years of Warfare State adventurism, then the Neocon/Neoliberal outrage about the US withdrawal from Syria is simply heir apparent.

Next consider the interest of the generals, the Pentagon, and Beltway contractors who all realize enormous profits from Syria. Whether by commissions, by share values, or by government contracts. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to forget the real lives and real consequences of the US war in Syria. Yes, it’s all about the oil, but it’s about real people too.

Just one example is the abortive attack on a Conoco oil installation near Deir Ezzor in February of 2018, which remains unexplained to this day. The New York Times used this tragedy to castigate Russia for possibly employing contractors in Syria, just as the US factually employs contractors in all war theatres where it operates. In other words, the tragedy in Syria is played by the media just like all the war propaganda the west produces, in pursuit of endless wars for profit, regardless of lives lost.

And so, while we shed a crocodile tear for the Kurds in Syria, please also consider the big picture… where we came from… how we got here… and where we might go next. Let’s hope the United States and Israel will not be involved. And if not, Washington’s Deep State will cry louder… and louder still.

[Yardstick]

The tell that he’s got a screwed up worldview is his use of “neo-liberal”.

[Gen.Blather]

“Actually, it was 1919, but why quibble? “

Reminds me of a cartoon. An American is talking to an armed Arab. The cartoon was about Arabs invading someplace. The American says, “I suppose you are taking revenge for past aggressions?” The Arab says, “Yes, we are up to 1472.”

[rollo tomasi]

Consider too the 1996 Israeli IASPS blueprint for the region (detailed in this October 10th tanker attack article) if we accept that the US withdrawal prima facie is a fundamental change to the global hegemonic after twenty-four years of Warfare State adventurism, then the Neocon/Neoliberal outrage about the US withdrawal from Syria is simply heir apparent.



September 11, some spiritual entity seems to be trolling the people who elect the leaders.

"There can be no permanent peace so long as each nation retains its sovereignty. There can be no effective world organization to solve the economic and social problems of mankind so long as the nation is the unit of organization. The region, limiting national sovereignty and furnishing a suitable unit of organization for a world federation, is a practicable solution." - Maurice Parmelee (Not the sociologist pervert, but the Oberlin, Yale, Columbia academic troublemaker), silent, but influential player in developing criminology, economic and foreign affairs decisions for US leaders from roughly 1914 to the1960s

[cuban leaf]

I remember the Iraq Kurds were a big ally in the post 9/11 war in Iraq. Thing is, Kurds are like native “Americans”. They span the lower 48, canada, Alaska, Mexico and central and south america. So what happens if you have a deal with one “tribe”, but abandon one in a different “modern country”?

[SoCal Pubbie]

I picked up the vibe that the author is no fan of Israel either.

[rollo tomasi]

Yes, and the United States is a huge player in developing a Utopia (New World Order/Cultural Marxism) made of a handful of regions blasting nations’ sovereignty (Unless they posses nukes) until Trump came along.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’m guessing the author prefers the New World Order of the Islamic Global Caliphate.

[LRoggy]

Do we really have confidence in this report? I suspect there’s plenty of better reasons than what he wrote.

[Magnum44]

Yeah, history only began after 2010. Nothing important before then. LoL.

[rollo tomasi]

So, God blasted Israel throughout the Bible for not keeping they covenant the made to Him. I.E. the "branches that broke off" could not keep their part of the deal so God cut them off.

Israel, good grief

Fun times in Jerusalem I guess.

[lodi90]

P.I.P.E.L.I.N.E.

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As if Europe diversifying its energy sources is a bad idea.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

It is part of the zeitgeist. Worth a look, but rely on it? No.

[jeffc]

Yup. Trump is Gulliver and the Dems are the Lilliputians trying to tie him down at every turn.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

In other words, it doesn't matter what President Trump does or says about anything at any time - in their eyes it is the wrong thing, period. It is wrong because it is President Trump doing/saying it.

Even "sane" Tulsi Gabbard said in the debate "Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing “regime change” war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheerleading this regime change war. Not only that but, The New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war."

Gabbard wants to end US involvement in Syria until Trump takes a step in that direction.

[Mount Athos]

You know what, It’d be great if there was a sober discussion about what to do in Syria. I could respect all sorts of perspectives and opinions.

I expect, hope and believe that this is exactly what happened internally among Trump’s advisory and decision team.

The same thing isn’t happening in our press at all. There is no sobriety. There is no focus on the national interest.
The national review has been a piece of garbage for a long time, but damn their articles are a fresh reminder of this like a hard slap across the face.

It’s like the whole world is out to lunch and Trump is the only sober one. No, you don’t have to believe everything Trump does like some personality cult. But present your ideas in terms of the national interest. What is behind your assumptions — that we must do this and that for the kurds, that we must do it in exactly this way. It’s not explained. They just want to jump up and down and say how stupid such and such is, orange man bad... It’s useless.

[rollo tomasi]

Islamic Global Regional Caliphate that is a "power" the UN wants established to control the area east of Israel, however, emphasize Sunni before Caliphate.

Anyway, the Ba'ath Party is one big wrinkle in that grand scheme. If you want to prevent an Islamic Global Caliphate from developing, why dismantle the Ba'ath controlled States that developed into a decent Islamic baby sitting service in that region since the late 1940s. Don't equate Arab with Islam either. Arab secularists are the best we can hope for in governing that region.

[MV=PY]

That’s easy!

Orange man bad. They hope this one will stick somehow (unlike all the previous attempts).

[Mr. Jeeves]

It all goes back to that natural gas pipeline from Qatar through Syria to Europe. Every political player has a big payoff waiting from the Qatar government if they can help get it done - but Trump has continuously been messing the whole plan up.

[SoCal Pubbie]

So how exactly does the author support the Ba’ath Party by writing for Iranian groups who hate the US?

[Haddit]

The players going after Trump are in a panic mode.
They are all connected to the 2011 Arab Spring Civil Wars.
These were unconventional wars. The CIA was tasked with training young people to kill. Kind of like ANTIFA. Hillary gave seminars to recruit rebels. Google executives, Facebook and Twitter were used to recruit rebels. Wikileaks has a document of Google executives and Hillary using the local news media Al Jazeera to promote hostilities where pro-war-sliced-and-diced Jamal Khashoggi was a frequent commentator.
We dropped 12,192 bombs on Syria in 2016 during Obama’s administration.
Our footprint in these wars were only about 2,000 CIA operatives. Not enough for Americans to march in the streets or make major headlines.
These players bounced back and forth between government jobs and The Clinton Foundation. Some of them worked for HSBC Bank that pled guilty of money laundering for cartels, rich Saudis and the Clinton Foundation.
The young people they recruited were the Muslim Brotherhood.
They installed Hillary’s friend Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi as president of Egypt. A guy that taught at California State University Northridge.
Libya became a terrorist training ground that sells African slaves.
The Players became rich for killing 560,000 people in Syria and making 5 million Syrians refugees.
The people that support the Players are our enemies.
https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/video-rep-tulsi-gabbard-introduces-legislation-stop-arming-terrorists
VIDEO: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Legislation to Stop Arming Terrorists
December 8, 2016

In Tulsi Gabbard’s post above are many links to Obama arming terrorists. Some listed below.

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels
AUGUST 1, 2012
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802

Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/arms-airlift-to-syrian-rebels-expands-with-cia-aid.html

U.S. Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/world/middleeast/us-relies-heavily-on-saudi-money-to-support-syrian-rebels.html

Many of these people are calling for the impeachment of our elected President Trump.

The Insurgents:
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/
Republicans
• James Risch Idaho
• Marco Rubio Florida
• Susan Collins Maine
• Roy Blunt Missouri
• Tom Cotton Arkansas
• John Cornyn Texas
• Ben Sasse Nebraska
Democrats
• Dianne Feinstein California
• Ron Wyden Oregon
• Martin Heinrich New Mexico
• Angus King Maine
• Kamala Harris California
• Michael Bennet Colorado
Richard Burr North Carolina Chairman
Mark Warner Virginia Vice Chairman

https://intelligence.house.gov/about/hpsci-majority-members.htm
HPSCI Majority Members
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Adam Schiff, Chairman 28th District of California
Jim Himes 4th District of Connecticut
Terri Sewell 7th District of Alabama
Andre Carson 7th District of Indiana
Jackie Speier 14th District of California
Mike Quigley 5th District of Illinois
Eric Swalwell 15th District of California
Joaquin Castro 20th District of Texas
Denny Heck 10th District of Washington
Peter Welch Vermont at-large
Sean Patrick Maloney 18th District of New York
Val Demings 10th District of Florida
Raja Krishnamoorthi 8th District of Illinois

CIA Directors:
Leon Panetta February 13, 2009-June 30, 2011
Michael Morell July 1, 2011-September 6, 2011
David Petraeus September 6, 2011-November 9, 2012
Michael Morell November 9, 2012-March 8, 2013
John Brennan March 8, 2013-January 20, 2017

Directors of the FBI:
Christopher Wray, August 2, 2017 - Present
Andrew McCabe, May 9, 2017 - August 2, 2017
James B. Comey, September 4, 2013 - May 9, 2017
Robert S. Mueller, III, September 4, 2001- September 4, 2013

The NSA Directors were:
LTG/GEN Keith B. Alexander, August 1, 2005 – March 28, 2014
ADM Michael S. Rogers, April 2, 2014 – May 4, 2018
GEN Paul M. Nakasone May 4, 2018 - Present

Secretary of State:
Hillary Clinton 2009-2013
John Kerry 2013-2017
Rex Tillerson 2017-2018
Mike Pompeo April 26, 2018 to Present

The Attorney Generals were:
Mark Filip January 20, 2009 – February 3, 2009
Eric Holder February 3, 2009 – April 27, 2015
Loretta Lynch April 27, 2015 – January 20, 2017
Sally Yates January 20, 2017 – January 30, 2017
Dana Boente January 30, 2017 – February 9, 2017
Jeff Sessions February 9, 2017 – November 7, 2018
Matthew Whitaker November 7, 2018 – February 14, 2019
William Barr February 14, 2019 to Present