Our CIA created, trained and armed ISIL and Al Qaeda. It's not what you own, but what you control. Our policy of creating chaos denies others control of lands we consider strategic, either for location or resources. After enough chaos and suffering the people will accept whatever strongman we back, e.g. Egypt. It's all part of Brzezinki's "Great Game." You and I and all those millions of people left dead or in refugee camps are merely pawns for the elite, to be used or sacrificed for strategic gain. The aim of the advocates of a "New World Order" is total control and power. The road to Moscow runs through Damascus. We have over 1000 bases around the world, encircling Russia and China, our only two obstacles to hegemony. As Ramsey Clark said, "There is only one thing the rich want, and that is every thing."