The World Is Getting Scary

While I was looking for things to write about tonight, I noticed something. The world is becoming exceedingly more violent than it has been in the past, at least perception-wise, it is.

We have Syria fighting with the Kurds, with security forces killing more and more of the Kurds.

Zimbabwe has charged the mercenaries from last week with violating their security law by attempting to procure rocket launchers and grenades.

The Nigerian government is clashing with Islamofascists (maybe they can put the scam-mailers on the front lines?).

Kosovo is returning to the days of ethnic violence.

Georgia is desperately trying to avoid an armed conflict with the breakaway province of Adzharia.

The Allies in Afghanistan are conducting Operation Mountain Storm.

The Spanish are starting to discover evidence of an intelligence and law enforcement failure similar to our pre-9/11 failures.

And yet the EU appeasers still haven't gotten the clue. They seem to be more concerned with justifying and passing a "solidarity clause" than actually fighting terrorism.

And, of course, al-Qaeda is making more of their usual threats.

I know the world is a dangerous place, but this is perhaps a little more dangerous than normal. Too many hot spots in too small an area near the global powder keg.