Most of the world's land is divided into countries. which maintain order, suppress piracy, terrorism, banditry, drug running and the operations of serious criminals. In some places the country has failed and then really bad people set up shop and do crime.
For example, Afghanistan. The Russians invaded in the last 1970's which screwed the place up badly. With US support the mujahdin fighters finally drove the Russians out in the later 1980's. After this astounding victory, things fell apart. The victorious mujahadin split into factions and were unable to form a government. We Americans, now that the Russians had been bloodied, went home. Washington lacked the stones to straighten the place out. Civil order disintegrated, Islamic terrorists, the Taliban, took over most of the land, and Osama Bin Ladin cut a deal with the Taliban that allowed him the set up shop in the Afghan backwoods. From this secure base, Bin Ladin planned and executed 9/11.
Moral of the story, when the country becomes a failed state, a wild land, bad guys move in and do bad. The East African pirates operate out of Somalia, a failed state. ISIS operates out of the ruins of Syria and Iraq. Conclusion: we cannot allow failed states to fester. We have to do some thing to straighten them out before we loose more skyscrapers full of people.
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