It's too bad the Middle East and South Asia are so infested with Islam, because there is something about the lawlessness in those places that partly appeals to me. Sort of like the Wild West. It's certainly a far from ideal thing, but I would happily take the Wild West over the suffocating nanny state we have now. There's a reason the Wild West is such a major part of the American zeitgeist (first time I have ever used that word; I feel pretentious), it's because it was the final chapter of our taming the wilderness. Before that there was a Wild Midwest, and before that a Wild East. We were colonized by people who sought freedom for its own sake, danger be damned. It's in our blood and they haven't gotten rid of all of it yet.