Why America Targets her Agents - The Case of Iran and Syria
The first step towards perceiving the policies of the major powers is to perceive their viewpoint towards life. The Capitalist doctrine, which the major powers embrace, epitomises life as gaining pleasure. The author of "The Virtue of Selfishness", Ayn Rand, believed that: "…the actor must always be the beneficiary of his action and that man must act for his own rational self-interest." As for Jeremy Bentham, he once said: "…the said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." Hence, self-interest, or expediency, is the criterion by which the US weighs up her policies and her relationships with other states and rulers. There is no room for the moral, spiritual or humanitarian values in the Capitalist philosophy save for the expedient aspect. In other words, such values are only taken into account in respect of the benefit they render. Lord Palmerston said: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow." These quotes are but a true expression of the pragmatic Capitalist mentality.
The Ugly Face of Capitalism
Since capitalism has deemed the economic problem facing humanity to be the scarcity of the resources (goods and services) available in the world to satisfy people's wants, it views increasing the production of those goods and services as the solution to satisfying people's needs, leaving the price of goods and services to determine who would remain in the market and who would fold from among the producers; those who can afford the price would be able to acquire those needs and those who cannot do not deserve to live.