This is why I'm talking about Somalia

The Horn of Africa. The reason I keep mentioning it is that the rise of Islamic militias there is massively destabilizing creating a new safe haven/transfer point of sorts a la Afghanistan, but I didn't see this coming.

More than 700 Islamic militants from Somalia traveled to Lebanon in July to fight alongside Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a United Nations report says. The militia in Lebanon returned the favor by providing training and — through its patrons Iran and Syria — weapons to the Islamic alliance struggling for control of Somalia, it adds.

It also says Iran tried to trade weapons for uranium.

The Islamic militias are active from southern Somalia up to Eritrea across through Sudan and now reaching into Chad. They are receiving support from Iran, Hezbullah, Saudi, Egypt, and others.

Couple this new movement with the tribal areas along the Pakistan/Afghanistan borders, and you could argue that we're not just losing Iraq, but we're losing the broader war on terror.

I know that's heresy, but as the US is snatching up people, the Islamists are snatching up peoples. We're losing the war of ideas, and in the end, that is the GWoT battlefield.

Later: The BBC largely echoes the Telegraph article from a couple days ago.

The countries arming the (Somali) Islamists are Syria, Iran, Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya and Saudi Arabia, according to the report.

Ethiopia, Uganda and Yemen are named as the countries supplying Somalia's interim government.

Again, this is roughly how Afghanistan formed, a weak central government overthrown by extremist Islamic militants, supported by several of these same countries, who promised order and an end to corruption.