Oil is fungable. It's not like we get our oil directly from soudi arabia by some path. Since when do we recognize the property rights of a king over his entire kingdom? The united states has no self interested fampasit wouldn't know what self interest is if it hid him in the face. Just with the contradictions, the constant and non ending contradictions of american falm policy. You alesa lead makes no sense. you would love john muller's new book, the stupidity of war.
Michael Shermer speaks with entrepreneur, writer, and activist Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism; individualism vs. collectivism; the nature of human nature; altruism, cooperation, reparations, and charity; the starting point of morality and the foundation of ethics; collective action problems and how they are best solved; our moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves; the Is-Ought problem of determining right and wrong; reason and empiricism; immigration, abortion, foreign wars, the welfare state, and terrorism.