Energy geopolitics and the US mission in Iraq and Syria

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Mr. Obama’s remaining ‘liberal’ supporters must cringe when serial catastrophe generator Dick Cheney is ‘recommending’ the same essential policies for the Middle East that Mr. Obama is.

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The common factor in these coups was oil, natural gas and pipelines for their transport. However, in each case the rationale provided to the public, to the extent any was offered, centered around Cold War geopolitics and keeping the ‘communist menace’ at bay.

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To the point made more than once, ‘terrorism’ is the new ‘communism’ in Western political slander.

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The relation of the U.S. / NATO proxy war in Ukraine to renewed military intervention in Iraq and Syria is about who supplies Europe with oil and gas. The strategy appears to be to break the relation between Russia and Europe and use U.S. and ‘coalition’ control over Middle Eastern oil and gas to sell it to Europe. This ties twentieth century geopolitics to the long-standing use of American state power to further the private interests of multi-national oil and gas companies. It is also in every conceivable dimension a moral, political, economic and environmental atrocity. Mr. Obama was able to sell his ‘humanitarian interventions’ in North Africa to apparently receptive audiences. Now he is selling his wholly implausible ‘war on terror’ to perpetuate permanent death, misery and destruction across a wide swath of the Middle East. Odds are there will be a lot of ‘takers.’

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