On Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:56:29 UTC+2, StarDust wrote:

You're massed up in your head! LOL!
Assad was an eye doctor , had his business in England!
Many countries aligned with US or EU are non-democratic, just see S-Arabia, weekly they chop off peoples head in the main square without trial.

If power corrupts then oil power corrupts absolutely.
It was not a coincidence that many oil states were a millennium behind The West.
For many countries, oil has not meant real progress for the vast majority.
Stone age, desert bandits provide stone age, corrupt leadership based on fear.
Putting them in priceless palaces and cars was just casting pearls before pigs.