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(229 posts)... "But he had a plan all along to put down the gun, in the event he was surrounded by police and could not get away with the (oil) theft - so he is really a swell guy."
Not that I think TPTB have actually put the gun down, so much as tried to create a new way to fenagle an "armed force" contingency through the Security Council - like they did with the Libyan "no fly zone", which became the Libyan "free fire / bombing by NATO zone." THAT is what the Russians and Chinese (the only powers that can meaningfully stand up to the Western Transnationals) aren't willing to repeat.
If the goalposts are actually met, and there is no US Bombing, I will be very, very, pleasantly surprised. If the Iran-Iraq-Syrian pipeline goes through, I will be shocked. If Golan-heights oil is returned to Syria, I will be dumbfounded.
At that point, I will advocate that Syrian citizens should be given equal shares of their oil to trade into the market, pending an international-individualization system of equal-apportionment of the world's mineral resources to every person on Earth - to be traded by each person in a "really free-trade" commodities market. Dang, we have a long way to go.