DECADE OF DISRUPTION: "Islamist threat remains top concern," by Daniel Domboy, Financial Times, 28 December 2009.

Wow! That does describe a decade "from hell." I mean, working in the DoD back in 2000, I remember most experts rating radical Islam somewhere in the upper half of threats, with nuclear proliferation typically numero two after "rising" China. Now, a decade later, we still have our freak-out artists on China and nukes (two more states--bringing us to ten and guaranteeing "40 or so nuclear powers any day now!"), and radical Islam, thanks to 9/11 and Iraq and Afghanistan, has moved into the top spot. Talk about the victory of the lesser-includeds. If you had come to me in 2000 and said, ten years from now our biggest fears would be terrorists with nukes, I would have bought that future in a heartbeat as the best possible leftovers we could hope for. But, of course, we live in the most dangerous era known to man!!!!!!! Because SOMEBODY could blow a NUKE off someday! Then it would be . . . like . . . THE DAY AFTER! (just with virtually the entire planet and world population completely untouched, but other than that, EXACTLY LIKE "THE DAY AFTER"!!!!!!!!!!!). Scary times, indeed. Unprecedented really, unless you count the last strangely quiet years (I threw in that "strangely" just to cover my rear-end).