The US attacks against Syria have nothing to do with the stated reasons. Obviously the accusations against Assad are lies offered with no proof of any kind. Given all the times the US State Dept. has been caught lying, only an ignorant sheep would believe them now.
The US is tearing down Syria because they committed the cardinal sin, they blasphemed the hegemony, they had the unmitigated gall to want to sell *their* oil for [gasp] Euros. If we let one freakishly nervy little despot abandon the petrodollar, others might follow, and the next thing you know, the US will have lost its handy little way of ripping-off the rest of the world, on a continuous and on-going basis. When that happens the pretense will be over and the harsh light of reality will shine on that obscenely ginormous mega-bubble that is the US economy, and the big picture of just how far the extraction of wealth has truly progressed, will fall into view… It will NOT be pretty!
One way of looking at it would be that when the US economy tanks, the world economy follows, so it’s a choice between the whole world suffering or just the middle east. That’s bullshit, though, if/when we lose it, the actual problem won’t be the petrodollar. The root core problem was, is and will continue to be the shameless looting of the middle class — the class that gets up every morning and actually produces something (which seems bloody ironic to me, but it might be a perspective thing.)The secondary problem is the lack of ethics, morals and/or common decency on the part of the elite, their willingness to sacrifice millions of lives just to maintain their status quo. That inherent dishonesty is a problem, but at the end of the day, extreme greed is the driving force behind the world’s worst problems.
Perhaps Orwell said it best:
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.”