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By Michael Snyder: Someone
wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.
Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it
roughly means "to whose benefit?" The key to figuring out who is really
behind the push for war is to look at who will benefit from that war.
If a full-blown war erupts between the United States and Syria, it will
not be good for the United States, it will not be good for Israel, it
will not be good for Syria, it will not be good for Iran and it will not
be good for Hezbollah. The party that stands to benefit the most is
Saudi Arabia, and they won't even be doing any of the fighting. They
have been pouring billions of dollars into the conflict in Syria, but so
far they have not been successful in their attempts to overthrow the
Assad regime. Now the Saudis are trying to play their trump card - the
U.S. military. If the Saudis are successful, they will get to pit the
two greatest long-term strategic enemies of Sunni Islam against each
other - the U.S. and Israel on one side and Shia Islam on the other. In
such a scenario, the more damage that both sides do to each other the
happier the Sunnis will be.
There would be other winners from a U.S. war with Syria as well. For example, it is well-known
that Qatar wants to run a natural gas pipeline out of the Persian Gulf,
through Syria and into Europe. That is why Qatar has also been pouring
billions of dollars into the civil war in Syria.