The Globalization of Everything

An instance being the Globalization of Mutiny and Insurrection.

These forms of discontent, previously restricted to barracks and towns, then erupting at times into larger areas of a given country or nation - sometimes reaching all the way to the national borders - are now international in scope.
Al Qaida may be seen as the first exemplar of this new "App" of human industry: the global mutiny, an insurrection carried on throughout the world; it is as if Fidel Castro waged revolution not just from the Sierra Maestra mountains, but from Miami, too.

I sit and muse on Al Qaida, but more on Afghanistan: my wife said she has no idea why we are there. We do not have any idea what our so-called national government is doing anymore. We only know part of them want to disinherit us, and another part is posting nude pix on the Internet, and some others are reasonable voices that cry in the wilderness.
First, the Taliban provided a base for Al Qaida, payment being Al Qaida's assassination of the leader of the Northern Alliance less than a week before 9/11.
Second, the Taliban offered to extradite bin Laden after 9/11 if the USA could produce evidence that he was responsible for 9/11. Of course, there was no forthcoming evidence that could directly tie bin Laden's group to the event at the time, only his claim to be responsible.
Third, once we pushed the Taliban out, we dithered for half a decade while pursuing an illegal war in Iraq, allowing the Taliban to come back in and re-establish themselves.

So, now we are making good on... what? The Globalization of American... what? What shall we call it? The Globalization of maddened lemmings fortuitously dropped within a landscape of cliffs and unable to clearly choose which one to jump off... so we are trying them all.

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