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Who
Benefits From A US War With Syria?
by Michael Snyder
August 31, 2013
Someone
wants to get the United States into a
war with Syria very, very badly. Cui
bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly
means
"to whose benefit?" The
key to
figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who
will
benefit from that war. If
a full-blown war
erupts between the United States and Syria, it will not be good for the
United
States, it will not be good for Israel, it will not be good for Syria,
it will
not be good for Iran and it will not be good for Hezbollah. The party that stands to
benefit the most is
Saudi Arabia, and they won't even be doing any of the fighting. They have been pouring
billions of dollars
into the conflict in Syria, but so far they have not been successful in
their
attempts to overthrow the Assad regime.
Now the Saudis are trying to play their
trump card - the U.S. military. If
the Saudis are successful, they will get
to pit the two greatest long-term strategic enemies of Sunni Islam
against each
other - the U.S. and Israel on one side and Shia Islam on the other. In such a scenario, the
more damage that both
sides do to each other the happier the Sunnis will be.
There
would be other winners from a U.S. war
with Syria as well. For
example, it is
well-known that Qatar wants to run a natural gas pipeline out of the
Persian
Gulf, through Syria and into Europe.
That is why Qatar has also been pouring
billions of dollars into the
civil war in Syria.
So
if it is really Saudi Arabia and Qatar that
want to overthrow the Assad regime, why does the United States have to
do the
fighting?
Someone
should ask Barack Obama why it is
necessary for the U.S. military to do the dirty work of his Sunni
Muslim
friends.
Obama
is promising that the upcoming attack
will only be a "limited military strike" and that we will not be
getting into a full-blown war with Syria.
The
only way that will work is if Syria,
Hezbollah and Iran all sit on their hands and do nothing to respond to
the
upcoming U.S. attack.
Could
that happen?
Maybe.
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