Lawrence Wilkerson: Protecting Syrian Oil Is Not the Reason US Troops Are Staying in Syria

in syrianoil •  5 years ago 

Protecting Syrian oil that accounts for just 0.2 percent of world reserves is not the reason United States troops are staying in Syria, argues retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson in a new interview at MSNBC. Instead, says Wilkerson, who was chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, the offered oil protection rationale is a “manufactured reason.”

Continue reading at http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2019/october/28/lawrence-wilkerson-protecting-syrian-oil-is-not-the-reason-us-troops-are-staying-in-syria/

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