09-30-2015, 06:56 PM
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Too lazy to set a custom title
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
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Originally Posted by Rochard
I understand this perfectly. But it shouldn't be this way. We shouldn't be against Assad because Syria has always been in the Russian camp. We need to stop drawing lines in the sand saying "You are either with the United States, or with Russia". Instead, say, you are with Russia, if you need something from us just let us know.
Removing Assad will accomplish nothing. He will be replaced by something similar, and Syria will still be in the Russian camp.
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Justification for the West/Coalition to support ousting Assad :
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The Qatar-Turkey pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline running from the Iranian-Qatari South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field field towards Turkey, where it could connect with the Nabucco pipeline to supply European customers as well as Turkey. One route to Turkey is via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria,[1][2] and another is through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq.[3][4] Syria's rationale for rejecting the Qatar proposal was said to be "to protect the interests of [its] Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas."[1]
In 2012 an analyst cited by Ansa Mediterranean suggested that Qatar's involvement in the Syrian civil war was based in part on its desire to build a pipeline to Turkey through Syria:
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... always think OIL/GAS ... just dollars .... |
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