The Edge of Chaos

I once read a book, since discarded in my two downsizings (and I cannot recall the exact name), about travels through the borders of cultures where chaos either existed or potentially existed.  We now find Al Qaeda continuing to surface in different parts of this ether because there is very little law in this ether.

The book's forecast was very accurate.  It started in West Africa where Arab culture meets African in the Southern Sahara and northern grasslands of sub-saharan Africa and then continued through Egypt and the Middle Eat into the Caucasus's around Iran and into all the 'Stans.  It finished in parts of Indonesia and the Philippines, where thankfully, now, for the most part policies are in place which may reduce the risk of future conflict.

But in the rest of the areas traveled and described, there is very little effective, democratic, or enlightened society and it is not surprising that is where the War on Terror has migrated to.  Until there is effective government in these places, Al Qaeda types will find a home they can control with force and bring misery upon those who live there and those who must seek these criminals out to end their reign of terror.