Early in the US air war against ISIS in Syria, warplanes destroyed a dozen portable oil refineries seen as economically valuable to ISIS. Today, that trend continued with attacks on three more stationary refineries in northern Syria.
Witnesses in Turkey say that the US airstrikes today hit and destroyed three makeshift refineries along the border. Administration officials have made much of the refineries being a key source of financing for ISIS.
Yet as a practical matter the refineries are also the major civilian economic infrastructure of eastern Syria. With ISIS targets not always easy to single out, the US seems to be just hitting anything of economic value now in the hopes of bankrupting the region and, by extension, ISIS.
That means imposing even more economic hardship on the people of eastern Syria through military force in the near term, and also leaves open the question of how the region will recover when, or indeed if, ISIS is ever supplanted by some new faction.
They are not bombing ISIS but bombing the wealth of syrian people, they are in business of destructions everywhere, from Libya to Iraq to Afghanistan using their phony "democracy" retthoric/lies as their base for destroying people's life, Obama is no different then Bill clinton or George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, after all they all believed in John Wayne and senator McCain. Obama in just 5 years have managed to destroy three nations life for a long time to come, Changiz Khan was not able to destroy 3 country, nor the Hitlerisn ideology.
We see what the problem is here, ISIS selling oil at less than $20/barrel. They were supposed to simply overthrow the Syrian government, darn it, not bite the hand that feeds!
Exxon says thank you for taking out the refineries in the world that they don't own. Just wait, now you'll see them wait a few days, and then raise home heating oil prices for the winter time claiming there is now a shortage in 'worldwide refining capacity.'
It's getting harder and harder to see the difference between the US and the coalition poodles and ISIS. The one difference I see is that the USG camouflages what they are doing to the innocents of the world while ISIS does it out in the open.
This is about destroying the Syrian Government. ISIS is just an excuse for the Western tyrants to perform creative destruction on Syria by destroying the infrastructure then the regime, which afterwards they the other psycho "moderate" rebels will fill in the power vaccume left behind.
This is horrible. Imagine the environmental destruction from ruined oil refineries, the unemployment, the loss of fuel for the people who live there, as well as the direct civilian casualties. It's Iraq all over again, soon to be Libya if USG gets its way.