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Originally Posted by saltine
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Ah, well now we are at a different topic of discussion then what at least two of your previous sources wanted to angle on.
That "pipeline politics" is helping fuel the interest in the civil war and keeping it churning is not something I would debate. However, the pipeline is not the
cause of the civil war as some of your sources stated. The civil war started for much more normal reasons, but the geopolitical interest of the competing blocks over the pipeline potential has made the conflict a worthwhile investment for them.
Take the pipeline out of it though and you get the classic Sunni-Shia rivalry. Assad is a key Iranian ally. Saudi Arabia and the US would be interested in opposing him regardless of the natural gas pipeline question.
So, it is an interesting sidebar of the civil war, but it's not the cause of and reason for the civil war as two of your more interesting sources purported with their "engineered strife" line.
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