Geography and Syria

[Jacobin]

Sometimes it helps me to visualize the countries in the news, the way the imperialists and neo-cons in the administration look at these maps (but without the gleam in my eye)

Syria would seem to be a smaller country to bite off than Iran and I'm guessing less well armed. They are closer to Israel, which seems to have quite a signficant influence on our military policy, and perhaps more troublesome to Israel than Iran is.

PNAC does mention Syria and Iran, after Iraq in their mein kampf.

The calling home of the Syrian ambassador seemed a little sudden. Are we off to war again, so soon?

[RawMaterials]

1. syria, iraq, iran and afganhistan - The Great Slik Road

looks like a direct line from euorpe to asia to me.
historical trade route that could be very important to the NWO, controling trade between europe and a big up in commer like china.
http://www.orexca.com/silkroad.php



" The Great Silk Road first functioned as a route from China to the capital of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC. It was about seven thousand kilometers long. The most valuable commodity imported from China was silk, which is an obvious explanation why this entire transcontinental trade route was named The Silk Road."

[burythehatchet]

2. One analysis that makes some sense to me

is that this was a hit against the Saudis, because the target was a close ally of Saud. So if the fictional Al-Queda did it, that means the CIA likely is involved.

I wonder, have we ever killed someone as a causus belli, only to later discover that we set it up?

[shraby]

3. Iran would give them the shortest

route for a pipeline from the Caspian to the Gulf and across only one country instead of multiple countries.

[RawMaterials]

4. this is old but still fits the situation

Could it be that the NATO war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) was really "about the economy, stupid?" At the beginning of the war, President Bill Clinton candidly admitted that: "If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be a key.... That's what this Kosovo thing is all about.” John Keegan, the eminent British historian, later concluded that he "sees the war as a victory not just for air power but for the 'New World Order.'"

Sean Gervasi, first warned of the potential for NATO to serve as the military security force for this globalist New World Order while at the 1996 Prague Conference on the Enlargement of NATO. His paper, “Why is NATO in Yugoslavia,” demonstrated that Yugoslavia stands at the crossroads of a oil trade and transportation route combining Emperor Charlemagne's dream of a great European waterway with the fabled Silk Road.

The importance of joining the two trade routes was also summed up in 1997 by William Ramsay, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions, and Commodities: "We think oil and gas pipelines, roads, railways and fiber optics can make this 21st century Silk Road a superhighway linking Europe and Central Asia." This optimism is based largely on reports by the US Geological Survey (USGS) that Caspian Sea oil reserves are estimated to 100-200 billion barrels. Regional natural gas reserves are estimated to be three times larger with those of the United States. In comparison, the Kuwait oilfields recaptured from Iraq during the Gulf War have been estimated to contain 94 billion barrels of oil.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/comm-j23.shtml


you don't need to get to water as fast as you think, plus i might be wrong but I'm almost sure that there are only a few passages that would be easily transversed threw the mountains.