Exactly So
Syria under Assad poses no strategic threat whatsoever to the US
The Russians have been there for decades
I have a sad feeling this is all about oil and European bankers
However the clumsy power vacuum obama’s JV team is trying to create in Syria will be filled with people who are very dangerous to the U.S.
I am astounded to be backing Russia and hoping Putin is at least half the man he needs to be to stabilize the region
Russia has sold much of Iran’s nuclear technology to them and most of Iran’s weapons systems are of either Russian or Chinese origin. If Russia, like the rest of the world, knows Iran intends to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons as soon as they are capable, why are they assisting Iran toward their goal? It is almost as if Russia wants a nuclear conflagration to take place in the Mid East, so why would that be, and how would Russia gain from such a catastrophe?
Russia just might think if Israel is attacked by Iran with multiple nuclear strikes, both the U.S. and Israel will respond by completely destroying Iran with nuclear weapons. That many nuclear strikes in the region could contaminate the Mid East with enough radiation to destroy much of the region’s population and prevent oil from being exported from the region for many years to come. There would be no more cheap Mid East oil, and western economies would collapse overnight.
If Mid Eastern oil is no longer available, who has the next largest developed oil reserve, and without competition from the Mid East could set the price and the world would have to pay it? I’ll answer that question; it’s Russia. The Russians learned the lesson of capitalism too well from us, and with our help, they are just eliminating their competition.
So, it is all about cheap Mid East oil after all, now isn’t it?
You really believe that?
. Syria was host to Imad Mugniyeh and still is to Hezbollah. Syria and Iran and Russia are allies and all three were steadfast allies even as Mugniyeh was killing Americans and Israelis since the 80s.
In case you've forgotten Mugniyeh and his terrorists killed hundreds of Marines, a US CIA station chief, targeted embassies and even launched successful terror attacks in the western hemisphere against Israel and is still active in this hemisphere. During the Clinton years the US tried to get him [as far as Clinton's efforts usually go] when he moved about on shipping in the Med but Clinton generally chickened out just as in Somalia. When Mugniyeh was finally killed - not long ago at all - guess where he was? He was in Syria meeting with the Baathist Syrian regime.
When Captain Yee, the former Christian was sent to be the muslim chaplain at Gitmo ... was caught smuggling information in and out of Gitmo, who was he working for?
He was working for Syria.
When he was trained as a muslim preacher with intention of becoming a chaplain, where was he trained in the faith?
[Note that the organization used to certify military chaplains for the military - AMFVAC if I have the acronym correct] was created during the Clinton administration and among its founders were people who were later nailed for ties to terrorists, etc.
This group sent him to learn to preach the faith. They sent him to the central mosque in Damascus, Syria. Syria, like Iraq at the time was and is a Baathist state, and while both allowed different religions both also kept tight controls on them and their trainees.
Why was Damascus secretly interested in obtaining information about and communicating with prisoners at Gitmo? It's not difficult to figure out- some of the prisoners were their assets.