Click here to access article by Felicity Arbuthnot from Global Research.
The author provides solid documentation to support the well known thesis that the current war in Syria is, at least to a considerable extent, a part of an overall plan to destabilize countries in the Middle East that pursue policies independent of the Empire and to create a new a "New Middle East" that is compatible with the interests of the Empire.
The first three documents are most important: the first report is on the emergence of this strategy in in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The second is from a US Army War College Quarterly which explains the mission of the US Army: "The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault." The third document is a Wikileaks release of a State Department cable outlining a strategy to destabilize the Syrian government.