The West has moved fast on Syria in the wake of Assad's ouster - first lifting most sanctions and now ensuring oil and gas are tapped and get flowing again. The brutal sanctions served to punish the broader Syrian population for many years. It underscores once again that the disastrous war was really about externally-driven regime change and installing a more malleable puppet government - which turned out to be essentially Al Qaeda in suits. Bloomberg is reporting that the Switzerland-based Vitol Group, which is the largest independent oil…