The Kingdom and the Afghan Chaos

Conflict, disorder, terrorism and security regimes

Financial Regulators Fine Mess

There was destruction and disruption on a scale difficult to imagine.

Even in the midst of terrible destruction and death and chaos,

Chaos, bloody chaos, prevails in many places.

PARIS France is in disarray.

Likewise, Liberalism leads to excesses to unemployment, anarchy.

Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.

They are a force for progress, a counterweight to alienation, and a defence against breakdown and disorder.

The end of the cold war, however, did not mean the end of uncertainty or of disorder.

In many parts of the world instability reigns, causing tragedy and chaos.

Individual dancers seem lost in the whirling, hysterical throng.

And yet, as contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be,

This is a tremendous challenge in a country that was ruined and subject to chaos for many years.

This context, combined with increasing social polarization, could give rise to chaos and violence.

You know, there's nothing like the jostle and the noise and the music of a Saturday night for cheering a fellow up.

They elected a party which called for reform and change in response to a decade of violence and lawlessness.

Conflicts, confusion, and failure to achieve decentralization objectives have characterized many decentralization efforts.6

There's a very little line between freedom and chaos. I'm absolutely on the side of freedom of each citizen

Political Islam The chaotic economic and political climate since independence in 1975 has been detrimental to the development of human rights and social justice.

In order to undermine those who seek to sow division and chaos we must strive to develop tolerant and inclusive societies.

In each era of history, the human spirit has been challenged by the forces of darkness and chaos.

Age old conflicts still seethe, as can be seen from the terrible bloodshed, and havoc in former Yugoslavia.

On the last evening of my 25th college reunion, there was a party in a tent with dancing, and music, and noise.

Recently, Taleb coined the term antifragile to describe a system that benefits from inherent uncertainty, volatility, and disorder.

Destabilization and chaos followed, accompanied by a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability.

For most people, stability, even if imposed by authoritarian means, trumps disorder.

Yet, in this land of violence and chaos, you can hear hidden laughter swaying the trees.

Instability and confusion in the Arab world serve the agenda of a radically non status quo power such as Iran.

If deadlock and confusion were the only results, such political impasses might be tolerable.

No Israeli government will risk making a far reaching peace offer to a Palestinian Authority whose rule is characterized by abdication and anarchy.

Kuwait considers that the international presence in Somalia is indispensable if the Somali people are to be saved from destruction and chaos and if Somalia itself is to survive as an independent country.

Among the most severe are the continuous acts of terrorism designed to undermine the peace process and sow unrest and anarchy.

At the end of 1993, there were some 16 million refugees and millions of displaced persons, all victims of civil war and disorder.

Somalia continues to be in the grip of a situation of instability and political chaos coupled with acts of violence and bloodshed.

The fact that our sister country Somalia remains in the grip of fragmentation, anarchy and fighting, is deeply distressing to us and makes our hearts bleed.

A new regional order is not yet discernible, which points to a future fraught with risk and possible chaos.

In a democracy, standard restrictions regulate the time, place, and manner of speech in order to prevent imminent violence and civil disorder.

Withdrawal is one of the riskiest military maneuvers, because it can easily degenerate into panicky retreat and chaos.

Too often in the past, we have seen nations emerging from conflict lapse into disruption and chaos, thus destabilizing entire regions.

That has severe implications in terms of unemployment, social dislocation, psychological distress and the dramatic loss of urgently needed foreign exchange earnings.

As they see it, the immediate choices in the Arab world are not between dictatorship and democracy, but between malevolent stability and apocalyptic mayhem.

On today apos s international scene we see little construction and few new breakthroughs we see many ruins, much chaos and numerous unanswered questions.

Otherwise, those nice new economic edifices we are so carefully constructing will come crashing to the ground, undone by the confrontation and social chaos that continued marginalization of our youth will surely engender.