Va pensiero.

The second option seamlessly integrates all non-Caucasus and non-Central Asian gas supplies including the EMED.

Let Turkey have TANAP/TAP or Nabucco utilizing Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz for starters with an eye towards extend the pipeline through a Caspian marine crossing to Turkmenistan, if and when, conditions permit.

And
I don’t believe the old men in Riyadh, Doha, the rest of the Gulf, and maybe further afar, are going to like your line of thinking Optcon..One of the reasons there is such a fuss about Syria, is to prevent any notions of Iranian gas to Europe, or the building of option 2, from ever coming to fruition.

Regarding “It’s a gas, gas , gas”.
There are potentially two alternative pipeline routes to Europe for Iranian gas that have to be factored in.

1) Iran/Russia/Europe

or more importantly

2) Iran/Iraq/Syria/Cyprus/Greece-Italy, Greece-South Eastern Europe

The second option seamlessly meshes all non-Caucasus and Central Asian gas including the EMED.

Let Turkey have TANAP/TAP or Nabucco utilizing Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz. But in order to properly diversify transit routes and sources, have the other sources (Iran, Iraq, offshore Israel/Cyprus/Syria/Lebanon/Greece bypass the Turkish bottle neck by building option 2

What it shows is the world view of the media who will try to shape public opinion on the Iranian issue, which view matches the view of the current Administration. Coincidentally, I’m sure.

Not surprisingly, the Founding Fathers had much to say regarding liberty;

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” George Washington

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power sufficient to endanger the public liberty.” John Adams
“Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.” John Adams

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”. Benjamin Franklin
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin

“Now what liberty can there be where property is taken without consent?” Samuel Adams

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them”. — Patrick Henry

As did a notable and prescient visitor;
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.” Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude”. Alexis de Tocqueville
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith”. Alexis de Tocqueville

Thatcher’s words are as astute as ever;
“When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality – other than equality before the law – that government poses a threat to liberty.” Margaret Thatcher

Never was that threat more palpable than today. We stand on the brink of a soft tyranny that categorizes everything as either forbidden or mandatory.

Does anyone sane think that the man who the Iranians put in charge of their nuclear “negotiations” policy is actually really honestly thinking that he’s going to be a “moderate”?

And those are the same idiots who think that there is a side to support in Syria (and are pumping arms to Al Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood Islamists for the delusion that they are actually opposing a tyrant… Right… our foreign policy is so messed up, inconsistent, and based on total fantasy that the world has to be belly laughing at us in private.

I always worried that a reunified Germany would emerge in Central Europe with most of the East’s totalitarian tendencies exhibiting themselves.

A strong US would be taking Angela to the woodshed (in private… ) but to the woodshed about now.

Obozo is a joke, and Angela is shaking neeners at him behind his scrawny getting it on the down-low backside.

Given the peculiar proclivities of a surprising percentage of Muslim males, Rohani might have designs on it, too…

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