Is spreading on a worldwide basis. In third world countries the reason is hunger and starvation caused in no small part by our corn ethanol program. The removal of so much of one of the world's three principal grains (corn, rice and wheat) has caused a radical increase in the price of these most basic of all foods. While this is of no great consequence to us - we're rich by global standards - in places such as central Africa it is catastrophic.

Religious civil strife has manifested itself in the 'Arab Spring' throughout the Middle East. Our response has undermined our allies including Israel and encouraged anti-American dictators such as Assad in Syria. We've been totally ineffective in Libya demonstrating to the world our weakness and lack of resolve. The current riots in Britain are largely Muslim in makeup, yet the western press stands unwilling to speak the truth just as they are unwilling to connect the words terrorist and Islam.

Here in the United States, the recession has hit minority communities including illegals much harder than it has the rest of us. All it needs to galvanize the mobs is a trigger. I do not know what the trigger will be, but those of us who choose to think back to the riots following the MLK assassination know what can happen, though this time it may be worse by an order of magnitude. I hope I am wrong but fear the probable outcome.