{"id":8446,"date":"2012-04-10T06:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2012-04-10T06:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:43:45","slug":"friends-of-syria-fools-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8446","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Syria, “fools for war?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We want war, and we want it now<\/strong>
\nTHE ROVING EYE By Pepe Escobar – Asia times – 6 April, 2012<\/p>\n

It was deep into the night, somewhere over Siberia, in a Moscow to Beijing flight (BRIC to BRIC?) when the thought, like a lightning bolt, began to take hold.<\/p>\n

What the hell is wrong with those Arabs?<\/p>\n

Maybe it was the narcotic effect of that perennially dreadful Terminal F at Sheremetyevo airport – straight out of a Brejnev gulag. Maybe it was the anticipation of finding more about the Russia-China joint naval exercise scheduled for late April.<\/p>\n

Or it was simply another case of “you can take the boy out of the Middle East, but you can’t take the Middle East out of the boy”.<\/p>\n

With friends like these … It all had to do with that Friends of Syria (fools for war?) meeting in Istanbul. Picture Saudi Foreign<\/p>\n

Minister Saud al-Faisal – who seems to have a knack for sending US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton into rapture – feverishly arguing that the House of Saud, those paragons of democracy, had “a duty” to weaponize the Syrian “revolutionary” opposition.<\/p>\n

And picture al-Faisal ordering an immediate ceasefire by the Bashar al-Assad government, guilty – according to the House of Saud – not only of cruel repression but crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

No; this was not a Monty Python sketch.<\/p>\n

To make sure he was milking the right cow, al-Faisal also said that the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), also known as Gulf Cooperation Council, wanted to get further into bed with the United States. Translation, if any was needed; the US-GCC tag team, as expressed by the weaponization of the Syrian “rebels”, is meant to body slam Iran.<\/p>\n

For both the House of Saud and Qatar (the other GCCs are just extras), what’s goin’ on in Syria is not about Syria; it’s always been about Iran.<\/p>\n

This especially applies to the Saudi pledge to flood the global oil market with a spare oil production capacity that any self-respecting oil analyst knows they don’t have – or rather wouldn’t use; after all, the House of Saud badly needs high oil prices to bribe its restive eastern province population into not even thinking about that Arab Spring nonsense. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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