The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil WellsBy Michael Snyder If you or I even gave five bucks to ISIS, we would be arrested and hauled off to Guantanamo Bay. And yet Barack Obama is allowing ISIS to funnel massive quantities of oil through our NATO ally Turkey, and he is not doing anything to stop this from happening. It is a betrayal of the American people that is so vast that it is hard to put into words. By now, virtually everyone on the entire planet knows exactly what is going on. For example, Iraqs former National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie shared the following on his Facebook page on Saturday First and foremost, the Turks help the militants sell stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil for $20 a barrel, which is half the market price. Until Russia started bombing the living daylights out of them, an endless parade of trucks carrying ISIS oil would go back and forth over the Turkish border completely unmolested. Following the downing of a Russian SU-24 bomber by Turkey in an area where many of these trucks travel, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to publicly air this dirty laundry. Just check out what he told reportersfollowing a meeting with French President Francois Hollande last week Commercial-scale oil smuggling from Islamic State controlled territory into Turkey must be stopped, Putin said after meeting Hollande in Moscow. Vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon, said Putin, reminding the press that the scale of the issue was discussed at the G20 summit in Antalya earlier this month, where the Russian leader demonstrated reconnaissance footage taken by Russian pilots. The views resemble a living oil pipe stretched from ISIS and rebel controlled areas of Syria into Turkey, the Russian President stressed. Day and night they are going to Turkey. Trucks always go there loaded, and back from there empty. We are talking about a commercial-scale supply of oil from the occupied Syrian territories seized by terrorists. It is from these areas [that oil comes from], and not with any others. And we can see it from the air, where these vehicles are going, Putin said. If the Russians could see all of this, the U.S. military could see it too. In fact, we have far better surveillance capabilities than the Russians do. So why didnt Obama put an end to this? Well, as I mentioned above, former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell told PBS that the Obama administration didnt want to create environmental damage, and he insists that the oil wells are infrastructure thats going to be necessary to support the people when ISIS isnt there anymore. The following comes fromthe Daily Caller Appearing on PBSs Charlie Rose on Tuesday, Rose pointed out that before the terrorist attacks in Paris, the U.S. had not bombed ISIS-controlled oil tankers. Morell explained, Prior to Paris, there seemed to be a judgment that look, we dont want to destroy these oil tankers because thats infrastructure thats going to be necessary to support the people when ISIS isnt there anymore, and its going to create environmental damage. And we didnt go after oil wells actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls because we didnt want to do environmental damage and we didnt want to destroy that infrastructure, right. In case you think that this is some sort of a joke, you can watch video of Morell making these comments on PBS below After the horrific terror attacks in Paris, the Obama administration finally was shamed into bombing a few of these oil trucks. But 45 minutes before the U.S. military bombed them, they dropped leaflets telling the truck drivers to get out of your trucks now and run away from them. What kind of war on terror are we running? Why in the world would we want to warn the terrorists to get away from their trucks? Meanwhile, things between Russia and Turkey continue to get even more tense. The Russians have slapped severe economic sanctions on the Turks, they have shut down all channels of communication with Turkeys military, and they are bombing every Turkish vehicle that they can find inside Syria. The following comes from a report that was put out by Debka In the last two days, Putin has been found saying one thing and doing another: Although he declared that Russia would not go to war with Turkey for stabbing it in the back, debkafiles military and intelligence sources report that since Wednesday night, Nov. 25, Russian heavy bombers and warplanes have been hitting every Turkish vehicle moving or stationary inside Syria. They bombed the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, located on the Turkey-Syria frontier, as well trailers and tractors parked in an area belonging to the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation, on the Syrian side of the border. As I wrote about the other day, it has been documented that our NATO ally Turkey has been training ISIS militants, funneling weapons to them, buying their oil, and tending to their wounded in Turkish hospitals. Now, heavy bombing by the Russians threatens to cut off those links In addition to punishing the Turkish leader, Russias massive military operations in Syria aim to degrade the rebel groups fighting the Assad regime. Heavy bombing sorties this week on the Syrian-Turkish border are cutting off tens of thousands of rebels from their only source of fresh supplies of weapons, ammo, food and fighters, leaving them without a line of retreat and nowhere to send their wounded. At this point, Russia and Turkey are very close to a state of war. But as a member of NATO, the United States is obligated to help protect Turkey if a full-blown shooting war does break out. We are closer to World War III than we have been in decades, and yet most Americans are still completely and totally oblivious to what is taking place. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, because things over in the Middle East threaten to spiral completely and totally out of control. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 1) Cognitive dissonance keeps americans in denial of the obvious truth, even after the same talking heads admit what is really going on. Example governments involvement in the south american cocaine drug trade. Our same involvement of the opium trade in afghanistan. 2) I think its laughable snyder is still trying to sell the democrat republican con. 3) What turkey has just done, and the response by nato and the us is so telling it wouldnt even qualify as a slap in the face to the american people, its more like a 2 x 4 over the head. The density has prevented them from feeling anything yet, but it must be spinning from the us admission of supporting isisno we are fighting them.. no I dont know what we are doing, but neither do they. They pretend they know but believe me they dont. Its like a kid with a hand grenade, sooner or later they will blow themselves up, but unfortunately many of the american people will go with them from willful ignorance. A quote to ponder War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. What kind of War on Terror (TM) are we running? The answer is easy to see as it has been played out for the last 14 years right in front of our eyes. We are going to overthrow as many countries as we can who are on the list using covert and overt means. We are going to crack down on democracy, free speech, gun rights, and freedom in order to repress the inevitable dissent. We are going to use financial repression and market manipulation to protect the super wealthy and their institutions. We are going to subvert all governance by instituting free trade deals. Oh, and BTW you can see none of this has anything to do with terrorism, other than the use of false flag terrorism to further the agenda. Cant believe I am being censored on this site. Religion acts like an opiate on society. The American people have been doped up by its religious leaders who tell them what they want to hear, and are awaiting slaughter. Quote from above: In the last two days, Putin has been found saying one thing and doing another: Although he declared that Russia would not go to war with Turkey for stabbing it in the back, debkafiles military and intelligence sources report that since Wednesday night, Nov. 25, Russian heavy bombers and warplanes have been hitting every Turkish vehicle moving or stationary inside Syria Wow! Who knew that the US military machine had an environmental conscience such that they would allow ISIS to enrich themselves selling trucked oil into Turkey to buy arms to kill and displace people and make war on the United States friends and forces all to avoid an environmental issue. That is truly remarkable! Truly remarkable that they believe people are so gullible as to believe what the claptrap they are spewing. Too bad they didnt have a similar environmental conscience when they unleashed innumerable DU munitions in Iraq and elsewhere which have induced epidemics of radiation mutated babies and continue to kill men, women and children in the DU contaminated areas. Too bad they didnt have a similar environmental conscience when they sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam rice paddies poisoning the earth so they could capture Vietnamese rice markets for themselves. Earth to US! Come in US! No one believes you anymore! 