Who is behind the drive to war in Syria?

[Tracy Riddle]

Tracy, I suspect that the underlying strategy revealed by General Wesley Clark in 2001 is still active, namely for the US to take out 7 countries in 5 years. The seven countries named by Clark are:

Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.

There are many websites that have reported this story, but try this one for example.

It seems pretty evident (to me anyway) that there were a small number of driving forces for this, including getting control over the huge Iraqi and Iranian oil fields, and also to nullify that radical muslim nations in the region - and to stop the Iranian atomic programme.

I remember reading that back in the Bush years. The impression that we're given is that the "neo-cons" are no longer in power, but the "neo-liberals" are not much different in my opinion. The rhetoric they use in public is the main difference.