Terrorists and Bad Governance

Well it seems the whole world has been struggling with the fallout of Bad Governance over the last week... In the news at least, there's been the ongoing Cote d'ivoire saga, the Dublin debacle, the Congo crisis and the Tunisian tantrum.
In fact - the majority of the worlds problems over the past few years could well be put down to Bad Governance and terrorists...
So, back to the news - it started with the Iraq inquiry where Tony Blair was being grilled by a bunch of very high profile QCs. I really pity the man for several reasons, the first; how on earth is he meant to remember conversations that he had going back to 2001? I can barely remember conversations going back ten minutes (sure, the gravity of my conversations is not quite of the same magnitude as that of the Iraq war but notwithstanding, one would hope that he would have had a LOT of discussion prior to going to war which would make the inquiry all the more difficult...). The second reason that I pity the man is that he blindly followed Big W into the war 'in solidarity with America', I mean really, how can that even be explained? Then again, Afghanistan, sure, the Taliban were bad people (Yes Saddam was a bad person too - but probably no worse than Mugabe) and the main motivation - they were probably hiding Bin Laden. So, the question on everyones lips 'did we go to Iraq for oil?' - Of course we did... But this is where I think it all went horribly wrong. I reckon Iraq was meant to be a quick badda bing, badda boom, get rid of Saddam and install a friendly arab, control the oil and a large chunk of the middle east. Nice job gentlemen. Had that been the case the war in Iraq would probably not be news any more... But clearly that didn't work out. Now here is the thing - just across the water (so to speak) is Sudan, another oil rich basket case with a leader who is actually wanted by the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity. Everyone seems to be fighting there (North vs South and then there's the Darfur region and Chad) - why not go and sort that out? That would be too much like hard work I think. But logistically they would have been doing us a favour because they could have sorted out Somalia and Yemen at the same time! Really - if it was Bad Governance (or no governance) and terrorists that you were looking for it would be harder to find three more promising countries right? Phew...
Then there is Tunisia, Ireland, Cote d'Ivoire, the Congo and Zimbabwe - the subject of next weeks blog on World Domination!