the government just sets the rules, they never said they had to follow the rules... but that is a good question... my guess is that the rebels promised to let (whoever) build aa oil pipeline across Syria so Iran can't block the shipping channels to get oil out of Iraq... that's my best guess.. ............................................................................................................................................ yes its true...

Don't get me started on Rand!…Too late, you have…{deleted for brevity}...and her objectivism…It's just another stupid "ism" after all.

I'll say that while I enjoyed some of her writing (if it was truly hers), I find her view of the egoist/individualist (with remarkably similar attributes in some respects to the subjectivist Nietzschian Übermensch) as expressed in her writing, not fully three-dimensional. While admirable for his independence, anarchistic self-governance, and inner strength, he falls far too short as a hero I could admire in that his snotty, selfish egoism and lack of empathy that places him at war with his socialist enemies makes him LESS than his full potential and not fully self-actualized at all. He might just as easily have been Ebenezer Scrooge before he wised up.

I wised up awhile ago. I used to play "Robin Hood" until I realised I was being unfair to the rich misers like Ebenezer and the murderous parasitic banksters & politicians I used to love to battle so much. I finally learned that it is much more effective to wage peace than to wage war, and that the easiest way to defeat an enemy is to be altruistic, and never give in to your anger & desire for vengeance. The old proverb that the best revenge is to live a good life is really true.

As a great ghost writer once said: "The man who loves his enemies has already won their war with him." - Sun Tan's "The Art of Peace"©

As you can tell, my own view differs from both Nietzsche and Rand. I see no reason why either a rugged individualist or Übermensch can't also have enough empathy for his fellows to be altruistic, love his enemies, and WILLINGLY give of himself for the good of others (I can already see Nietzsche spinning in his grave)…With insincere apologies to both Ayn & Fred, a strong, independent, rugged, caring, selfless individual…THAT would be a REAL superman! Maybe he could even organize the planet into the united free republic under the rule of (natural) law (and not men) that it has always had the potential to be.

The real reason humans are committing collective suicide is because so few of them live anywhere near to their true potential. For the most part, their brains are way behind their bodies, stuck at the sel-serving lizard stage of evolution and governed by fear & greed. They continually fall for and follow stupid and incompletely defined concepts like capitalism, socialism, communism, collectivism, objectivism, fascism, zionism, monarchism, nepotism, elitism (or some other stupid "ism") as though they are the be-all & end-all, which they aren't. These philosophies, produced by stupid lizard-brained men & women are always the same, fine in theory, but sucking big-time in their actual implementation because they either try to accommodate man's basic lizard nature, or try to FORCE unevolved lizards' brains to act like self-actualized people as though they liked it, which none of them do. In any event, the lizard-brains never evolve. The best they can do is make the "ism" work for their own egotistic/psychopathic fear & greed-laden benefit.

Capitalism doesn't work because its real-world implementation is really just a game of monopoly where the most successful capitalist psychopath wins everybody's cookies. Socialism/collectivism doesn't work in the real world because the gunpoint theft of wealth from the individual for redistribution to others who haven't earned it (whether they need it or not) is morally wrong; not only that, we can add an unofficial parasitic elite to the Marxist "equals" because as you know, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and anyone with the power to control the wealth of others (unless he's a more highly evolved life-form) will inevitably take the biggest "fair share" for himself. (so quite obviously NOBODY should have the power to govern those capable of governing themselves).

So how can those who need but can't provide for themselves get what they need in a peaceful and moral way that respects the right of those who earn to keep what they earn? Easy…Recognize that whether you like them or not, they are family…Give it to them entirely willingly and unselfishly (empathy, compassion, caring…you know… the stuff that makes humans more than just a bunch of psychopathic, dog-eat-dog, self interested egoistic a$$holes). We should never let our selfish interests, anger & malice prevail over our compassion, and we should recognize that our enemies are just family and we can probably work out the differences without killing one another if we cared enough to try.) So if your grumpy S.O.B. neighbour, whose dog $hits on your stoop while he watches laughing has a stroke and is gonna starve & die if you don't help him…well; I'll leave it to you to figure out the right thing to do.

If the higher animals (like ducks & geese for instance) were running the show on planet earth, I think you'd find it a much better place than the garbage dump men are turning it into at the expense of innocent life. Sometimes I wish you clowns would hurry up and kill yourselves all off & give the higher animals the opportunity to clean up the mess you're making and maybe the rest of us (mostly slime-mold & cockroaches if your suicide frenzy goes all-out) can live happily ever after.

Thankfully, Momma Earth's plan to de-louse herself and get rid of ALL the parasites unsustainably sucking her lifeblood is right on schedule and you will soon find yourselves embroiled in either a fully nuclear WWIII, or a global plague…{deleted for brevity}

I heard thru the grapevine that slime-mold & cockroaches will be replacing homo sapiens in the ecosystem. At least neither of those are destructive parasites…Bonus…As higher forms of life, they can work together cooperatively with their own species to get the job done.

Because the agenda isn't oil supply for the US; it is oil HEGEMONY and the preservation of the US petrodollar as part of the nearly completed bankster agenda for corporatist global control of the entire human race.

I hear the human trafficking industry has been lucrative for the group. Sharia Law is a joke

we really don;t need your oil - your value is diminished.

What's the punch line?...maybe that it isn't as hilarious as Judeo/Christian law?

sharia is a joke because it is all a male dominated set of rules designed to keep the women subservient to the men... i don't see a lot of that in the Judea/Christian law...

the Punchline is the hilarious constant Conspiracy Theories!

Only because you haven't studied either the law or your history. In point of fact, judeo/christian law is about as oppressive of women as sharia ever was. All of these were eclipsed by male-dominated, paternalistic, sexist, secular law until quite recently in our history.

If women have equal rights in western countries today, it is not to the credit of either the church or the patriarchal, sexist, secular state; thanks must go to the women themselves for fighting long and hard against men for their equal rights.

Hell…In Canada, women were not even considered "persons" under the meaning of the BNA Act until 1929! (fictional corporations had been considered "persons" in the US since the 1850's and they aren't even human!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy

As I said before, sharia law is no funnier than our own, so we are in no position to tout how great our law is.