Perhaps the the Taliban have succeeded in pinning US against each other and bringing down the engine and powers that drive our market-driven economy...Wall Street. You decide.
http://www.novelguide.com/lordoftheflies/themeanalysis.html http://www.novelguide.com/lordoftheflies/metaphoranalysis.html William Gerald Golding was born in September of 1911.
A neat way to save taxpayers money would be to ringfence Afghanistan and then empty the jails there from the civilized countries. That's about 2.5 million Americans for a start off. They could indulge their criminal inclinations there unimpeded, assuming they survive the cold, hunger, the Taliban etc.