Folks, this is a fight over who will dominate future natural gas sales to the EU. The “Islamic (Iran) and the Nabucco (Qatar) pipelines… The “Islamic” pipeline, connecting Iran’s South Pars field to European customers will span 3,480-miles (passing through Iran, Iraq and Syria, to the Mediterranean, with a natural gas refinery and infrastructure to be built in Damascus). While the competing Nabucco natural gas pipeline, which is being constructed to transit natural gas to Europe from the Central Asia and Caspian regions. The Nabucco pipeline is set to traverse Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, and end in Austria.
If Assad can be deposed, Turkey and Qatar would like the Nabucco pipeline to run through Syria (It will be cheaper to ship Natural gas/oil from Mediterranean Sea ports).

Are we going to allow American blood to be spilled over an Arab fight over energy dominance, when We have huge natural gas deposits in the USA and are expected to surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production by 2020?? This is utterly NUTS and hypocritical!!!