[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

We could end up with both. Think of the three global areas on Orwell's 1984. I can see that happening, though there would probably be 4 global areas: a Caliphate covering Turkey and spreading up through eastern Europe, a fascistic and socialized eastern Europe having become a single nation under the EU, a Communist controlled Asia, and us, battling admixtures of the other three to our north and south.

[wtc911]

Any Caliphate would not be regional. In 2002 the Singapore police cracked Jemiah (sp) cells and found electronic blueprints for a SEAsian caliphate that would include VN, Laos, Thailand, Indo, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Burma, Bangladesh and would eventually tie into an African caliphate, a Central Asian Caliphate (including FSSR states and the Balkans). A month later V Putin said that Russia was fighting a Chechnya based drive to establish a caliphate.

Considering the warfare in nearly every one of the above mentioned states it is not hard to see the ultimate goal of all the islamic violence....a Global Caliphate.