It's a pipeline war. Here are some links:
Pepe Escobar at Counterpunch
The Guardian
blacklisted news.com
Global Research.ca
OEN
Hope that helps. Most of these are links I got from joe, by the way.

As Big Al mentioned, Clark said that the United States was going to take out 7 countries in 5 years.
Most of the reasons for taking out the governments of those countries is to then install our puppet governments that will not only let the United State's special interests be able to get their hands on those country's resources, but make Israel the only superpower in the Middle East.
It's interesting that while countries are doing this for Israel, there hasn't been any Israeli troops having to put their live's in danger.
How many US military members have died not to protect our country or our freedoms, but for Israel? There is something very wrong with this!
This is an excellent article about how the CIA has been meddling in Syria and many other countries in the Middle East since its inception.

While the compliant American press parrots the narrative that our military support for the Syrian insurgency is purely humanitarian, many Arabs see the present crisis as just another proxy war over pipelines and geopolitics. Before rushing deeper into the conflagration, it would be wise for us to consider the abundant facts supporting that perspective.

In their view, our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011. Instead it began in 2000, when Qatar proposed to construct a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometer pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Qatar shares with Iran the South Pars/North Dome gas field, the world’s richest natural gas repository. The international trade embargo until recently prohibited Iran from selling gas abroad. Meanwhile, Qatar’s gas can reach European markets only if it is liquefied and shipped by sea, a route that restricts volume and dramatically raises costs. The proposed pipeline would have linked Qatar directly to European energy markets via distribution terminals in Turkey, which would pocket rich transit fees. The Qatar/Turkey pipeline would give the Sunni kingdoms of the Persian Gulf decisive domination of world natural gas markets and strengthen Qatar, America’s closest ally in the Arab world. Qatar hosts two massive American military bases and the U.S. Central Comman

http://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-midea...
This article shows that Obama knew that Assad didn't use the sarin nerve gas on the Syrian people, it was the terrorists that the US is funding that used it after the CIA and the state department gave it to them while they were supplying them with weapons from Gaddafi's stockpiles and they were running them out of the embassy in Benghazi.
The reason Obama let them use the gas was so that he would have an excuse to invade Syria and remove Assad for our allies.
Think about that! He intentionally killed over 1,000 innocent people including children! And Hillary, the protector of women and children was aware of this.
If that isn't sociopathic behavior, I don't know what is.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
There are so many more articles about the Syrian wars, including how the United States is creating, arming and funding terrorists groups in order for them to help overthrow Assad.
I am beyond disgusted with the people who are going to vote for Hillary even though they know that she has responsibility for over 1 million deaths of innocent civilians in the Middle East and other countries going back decades to when she encouraged Bill to bomb the countries he did.
She not only has been in favor of so many military interventions, she profited from the weapons sales to countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others that have horrible human rights violations.
And they insist that when we called her a warmonger that we were using right wing talking points.
For many of her and Obama's supporters, wars started under false pretenses is only wrong when it's a republican president doing them!

The Syrian children that died a heinous death from the sarin nerve gas.

Iran is Israel's big bad enemy (go ask Bibi), and since the Syrian Alawites (a branch of Shia Islam) have run Syria for a long time and are allied with Shia-majority Iran, the Israeli hawks would love to keep the place in perpetual chaos and ruin, even if it means having ISIS next door. Likewise Turkey (Israel's frenemy) has been slipping aid to ISIS, as has Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, just so they can all take a whack at Shia Muslims. Meanwhile of course, the Saudis are bombing the living hell out of Yemen just so they can exterminate the Houthis, a perpetually oppressed Shia ethnic minority in Yemen, with Israel and the US cheering them on. It gets even more disgusting than that, but I'll stop here.

That joe creates each week night? If you haven't then that's a great way to learn about the many wars and other issues that our government is doing around the world.
He posts links to articles and after I read the articles, I go to their home pages and read other articles they post.
Counterpunch, global research, truthout and truthdig are excellent websites for information.
Maybe you don't have as much time as I do to read not only the EBs, but many other websites. I guess that's the nice part of being disabled.

…which is taking place across for the entire Middle East, from Palestine to the border of Iran, sponsored by the Saudis, Qatar, Israel, and the US. Executed by ISIS, a Sunni cohort.

I discussed it here a while back:

Why is this any of this the business of the United States?

This is a religious issue on the other side of the world. The extermination of all Shiite muslims. ISIS is paid well by our closest allies, Saudi Arabia, to carry out the genocide as far as the border of Iran, with their fleets of identical vehicles and American weapons. It's not that complicated to see what's going on here. This, too, is a US proxy war against Russia via Syria and Iran (and Ukraine, of course).

In Syria, the religious war centers on an issue over a single pipeline that must transit Syria to reach the EU market. The Syrians, being Shiites and all, want it to carry Iran's oil. The Saudis, being Sunnis and all, want it to carry Qatar's. The US fights on the side of the Saudis and Sunnis, so the CIA had to stage a fake revolution there. They ran guns from Benghazi to the mercenaries pretending to be outnumbered and abused Syrian rebels. That way, the US Neocons could stage a "humanitarian intervention" with money and military support on behalf of Greater Israel, the future nuclear-armed dictator of the entire Middle East, as per the Bible. Hillary, Queen of the Neocons, facilitated most of this, as SoS.

Note the Syrian location. It's up to them whose oil flows. War is always about resource control and profits.

I believe I also answered the question at Quora some time ago.

Wiki: CIA activities in Syria

CIA activities in Syria since the agency's inception in 1947 have included coup attempts and assassination plots, and in more recent years, extraordinary renditions, a paramilitary strike, and funding and military training of forces opposed to the current government.

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